| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: but I must confess that that's the feeling I have in London."
"I am afraid I don't quite understand to what feeling you allude,"
said Percy Beaumont.
"The feeling that it's all very well for you English people.
Everything is beautifully arranged for you."
"It seems to me it is very well for some Americans, sometimes,"
rejoined Beaumont.
"For some of them, yes--if they like to be patronized.
But I must say I don't like to be patronized. I may be very eccentric,
and undisciplined, and outrageous, but I confess I never was fond
of patronage. I like to associate with people on the same terms
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
IV.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
The Fall of the House of Usher |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: turned at last to plead with them her eyes fell upon the face
of a tall, grim, old man glaring down upon her from beneath
the folds of his burnous.
At sight of him she staggered back in shocked and terrified surprise.
It was The Sheik!
Instantly all the old fears and terrors of her childhood returned
upon her. She stood trembling before this horrible old man,
as a murderer before the judge about to pass sentence of death
upon him. She knew that The Sheik recognized her. The years
and the changed raiment had not altered her so much but what one
who had known her features so well in childhood would know her now.
The Son of Tarzan |
