| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: dream.
I wonder if other people would make the same allowances for me!
Like the ladies of Creil, having recited my rosary of toleration, I
look for my indulgence on the spot.
PRECY AND THE MARIONNETTES
WE made Precy about sundown. The plain is rich with tufts of
poplar. In a wide, luminous curve, the Oise lay under the
hillside. A faint mist began to rise and confound the different
distances together. There was not a sound audible but that of the
sheep-bells in some meadows by the river, and the creaking of a
cart down the long road that descends the hill. The villas in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: and deaths.
CHAPTER XIII.
Morning found the settlers, with the exception of Col. Zane, his brother
Jonathan, the negro Sam, and Martin Wetzel, all within the Fort. Col. Zane had
determined, long before, that in the event of another siege, he would use his
house as an outpost. Twice it had been destroyed by fire at the hands of the
Indians. Therefore, surrounding himself by these men, who were all expert
marksmen, Col. Zane resolved to protect his property and at the same time
render valuable aid to the Fort.
Early that morning a pirogue loaded with cannon balls, from Ft. Pitt and bound
for Louisville, had arrived and Captain Sullivan, with his crew of three men,
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: To try their wisdom's full extent;
And said, she valued nothing less
Than titles, figure, shape, and dress;
That merit should be chiefly placed
In judgment, knowledge, wit, and taste;
And these, she offered to dispute,
Alone distinguished man from brute:
That present times have no pretence
To virtue, in the noble sense
By Greeks and Romans understood,
To perish for our country's good.
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