| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: fifteen hundred men directing their course towards the extreme
boundaries of Ethiopia with excellent camels, new leathern bottles,
and supplies of painted cloth, but one had reappeared at Carthage--the
rest having died of fatigue or become mad through the terror of the
desert;--and he said that far beyond the Black Harousch, after passing
the Atarantes and the country of the great apes, he had seen immense
kingdoms, wherein the pettiest utensils were all of gold, a river of
the colour of milk and as broad as the sea, forests of blue trees,
hills of aromatics, monsters with human faces vegetating on the rocks
with eyeballs which expanded like flowers to look at you; and then
crystal mountains supporting the sun behind lakes all covered with
Salammbo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: They proceeded on their way to Cambridge.
"Something has happened to the wheel," said Prothero, trying to be
at his ease.
"Merely a splinter or so. And a spoke perhaps."
"And what is this behind?"
Benham made a half-turn of the head. "It's a motor-bicycle."
Prothero took in details.
"Some of it is missing."
"No, the front wheel is under the seat."
"Oh!"
"Did you find it?" Prothero asked, after an interval.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: its impression of sweet, homelike order and recovered
quickly his composure.
"Gee, you're the dandy little housekeeper! I could
stay here forever."
"You like it?"
"It's a bird's nest " He glanced in the mirror and
saw the print of Ella's fingers on his collar. "Will
you look at that?" he growled.
"It's too bad," she said, sympathetically.
"You know I thought a she-tiger had got loose from
the Bronx and jumped on me."
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