| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: In the second place, salt-water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to
live in fresh water; and, according to Valenciennes, there is hardly a
single group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may
imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far along
the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and adapted to the
fresh waters of a distant land.
Some species of fresh-water shells have a very wide range, and allied
species, which, on my theory, are descended from a common parent and must
have proceeded from a single source, prevail throughout the world. Their
distribution at first perplexed me much, as their ova are not likely to be
transported by birds, and they are immediately killed by sea water, as are
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: myself."
He passed her by and walked rapidly out of the room. Susy stood
motionless, unable to lift a detaining hand or to find a final
word of appeal. On her disordered dressing-table Mrs.
Vanderlyn's gifts glittered in the rosy lamp-light.
Yes: men were different, as he said.
XI.
BUT there were necessary accommodations, there always had been;
Nick in old times, had been the first to own it .... How they
had laughed at the Perpendicular People, the people who went by
on the other side (since you couldn't be a good Samaritan
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: cows should be spilled upon the ground, and that no woman should give
birth to a child for a full year, and that if any should dare to bear
children, then that they should be slain and their husbands with them.
And for a space of some months these things were done, my father, and
great sorrow came upon the land.
Then for a little while there was quiet, and Chaka went about heavily,
and he wept often, and we who waited on him wept also as we walked,
till at length it came about by use that we could weep without ceasing
for many hours. No angry woman can weep as we wept in those days; it
was an art, my father, for the teaching of which I received many
cattle, for woe to him who had no tears in those days. Then it was
Nada the Lily |
