| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: hoofs raised clouds of dust. Without a word from their driver they
turned to the right. He kissed her again and she went home. The
following week, Theodore obtained meetings.
They met in yards, behind walls or under isolated trees. She was not
ignorant, as girls of well-to-do families are--for the animals had
instructed her;--but her reason and her instinct of honour kept her
from falling. Her resistance exasperated Theodore's love and so in
order to satisfy it (or perchance ingenuously), he offered to marry
her. She would not believe him at first, so he made solemn promises.
But, in a short time he mentioned a difficulty; the previous year, his
parents had purchased a substitute for him; but any day he might be
A Simple Soul |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: concoct this other scheme to obtain their assistance
against Simms and Ward; then they could throw the three
into irons and all would be lovely; but now that fool Ward
had upset the whole thing by hitting upon this asinine fire
hoax as an excuse for boarding the Lotus in force, and had
further dampened Theriere's pet scheme by suggesting to Skipper
Simms the danger of Theriere being recognized as they
were boarding the Lotus and bringing suspicion upon them all
immediately.
They all knew that a pleasure yacht like the Lotus was well
supplied with small arms, and that at the first intimation of
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: not going to pick up any rubbish that drifts in. Weaklings
go out again."
"As you meant me to go?"
"Well--l parleyed, didn't I?"
"We won't quarrel about that. Go on."
"Those who stop obey orders. Able-bodied, clean-minded
women we want also--mothers and teachers. No lackadaisical
ladies--no blasted rolling eyes. We can't have any weak or
silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and
mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to
be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live
War of the Worlds |
