| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: cents, and is careful to avoid the topic of cider, but has been known
occasionally to fall a victim to the craze for rectifying the
conjectural sums-total of the various fortunes of the department. He
is a member of the Departmental Council, has his clothes from Paris,
and wears the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In short, he is a country
gentleman who has fully grasped the significance of the Restoration,
and is coining money at the Chamber, but his Royalism is less pure
than that of the rival house; he takes the /Gazette/ and the /Debats/,
the other family only read the /Quotidienne/.
His lordship the Bishop, a sometime Vicar-General, fluctuates between
the two powers, who pay him the respect due to religion, but at times
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and, like a felled ox, he dropped in his tracks.
A low, silvery laugh rang out behind me.
"You are no thern," said the sweet voice of my companion,
"for all your golden locks or the harness of Sator Throg.
Never lived there upon all Barsoom before one who
could fight as you have fought this night. Who are you?"
"I am John Carter, Prince of the House of Tardos
Mors, Jeddak of Helium," I replied. "And whom," I added,
"has the honour of serving been accorded me?"
She hesitated a moment before speaking. Then she asked:
"You are no thern. Are you an enemy of the therns?"
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: "Reckon I'm feelin' as well as could be expected," replied
Laramie. His head was circled by a bandage that did not conceal
the lump where he had been struck. He looked pale, but was
bright enough.
"That was a good crack Snecker gave you," remarked Duane.
"I ain't accusin' Bo," remonstrated Laramie, with eyes that
made Duane thoughtful.
"Well, I accuse him. I caught him--took him to Longstreth's
court. But they let him go."
Laramie appeared to be agitated by this intimation of
friendship.
The Lone Star Ranger |
