| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: This point settled, there was nothing to be done but to return to the cart,
where they would consult.
Pencroft probably agreed with this decision, for he followed the reporter
without making any objection when the latter turned back to the wood.
In a few minutes the engineer was made acquainted with the state of
affairs.
"Well," said he, after a little thought, "I now have reason to believe
that the convicts are not in the corral."
"We shall soon know," said Pencroft, "when we have scaled the palisade."
"To the corral, my friends!" said Cyrus Harding.
"Shall we leave the cart in the wood?" asked Neb.
The Mysterious Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: and clean up. I'll have hot biscuits and everything in no time.
You poor boy. No breakfast!"
She made good her promise. It could not have been more than half
an hour later when he was buttering his third feathery,
golden-brown biscuit. But she had eaten nothing. She watched
him, and listened, and again her eyes were somber, but for a
different reason. He broke open his egg. His elbow came up just
a fraction of an inch. Then he remembered, and flushed like a
schoolboy, and brought it down again, carefully. And at that she
gave a tremulous cry, and rushed around the table to him.
"Oh, Orville!" She took the offending elbow in her two arms,
One Basket |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: kindred in some respect.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Tell me how we shall consider that question.
STRANGER: We must extend our enquiry to all those things which we consider
beautiful and at the same time place in two opposite classes.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Explain; what are they?
STRANGER: Acuteness and quickness, whether in body or soul or in the
movement of sound, and the imitations of them which painting and music
supply, you must have praised yourself before now, or been present when
others praised them.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.
STRANGER: And do you remember the terms in which they are praised?
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