| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: thing for you to do is to die. Now MUSH!"
"You go to bed!" Jees Uck insisted, when Amos had churned away into
the night towards Holy Cross. "You sick man yet, Neil."
"And you're a good girl, Jees Uck," he answered. "And here's my
hand on it. But you must go home."
"You don't like me," she said simply.
He smiled, helped her on with her PARKA, and led her to the door.
"Only too well, Jees Uck," he said softly; "only too well."
After that the pall of the Arctic night fell deeper and blacker on
the land. Neil Bonner discovered that he had failed to put proper
valuation upon even the sullen face of the murderous and death-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for
the general good of the Colony: unto which we promise all due
submission and obedience," etc. *i
[Footnote i: The emigrants who founded the State of Rhode Island
in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first
settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Providence
in 1640, began in like manner by drawing up a social contract,
which was acceded to by all the interested parties. See "Pitkin's
History," pp. 42 and 47.]
This happened in 1620, and from that time forwards the
emigration went on. The religious and political passions which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: disengaged at four o'clock that day till the Monday morning following.
The little car she hired at the Bear to drive her to Marygreen set her down at
the end of the lane, half a mile from the village, by her desire, and preceded
her to the schoolhouse with such portion of her luggage as she had brought.
On its return she encountered it, and asked the driver if he had found the
master's house open. The man informed her that he had, and that her things
had been taken in by the schoolmaster himself.
She could now enter Marygreen without exciting much observation.
She crossed by the well and under the trees to the pretty new school on
the other side, and lifted the latch of the dwelling without knocking.
Phillotson stood in the middle of the room, awaiting her, as requested.
Jude the Obscure |
