| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: bird!"
The good little man laughed. An improper sound it was to come from
his manly chest; and what made it worse was the thought that for the
least thing, by a mere hair's breadth, he might have taken this
affair sentimentally. But clearly Anthony was no diplomatist. His
brother-in-law must have appeared to him, to use the language of
shore people, a perfect philistine with a heart like a flint. What
Fyne precisely meant by "wrangling" I don't know, but I had no doubt
that these two had "wrangled" to a profoundly disturbing extent.
How much the other was affected I could not even imagine; but the
man before me was quite amazingly upset.
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: than they represented themselves to be.
A malign and threatening atmosphere seemed to surround
them. Even the cat-like movement of their silent mounts
breathed a sinister secrecy, and now, for the first time,
Barney noticed the short, ugly looking carbines that were
slung in boots at their saddle-horns. Then, promoted to fur-
ther investigation, he dropped back beside the man who had
been riding behind him, and as he did so he saw beneath
the fellow's cloak the butts of two villainous-looking pistols.
As Barney dropped back beside him the man turned his
mount across the narrow trail, and reining him in motioned
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: only way to do that, sweet chuck, is very often not to speak your
mind at all. We will go down and visit them at Chapel in a day or
two, and see if we cannot serve these reynards as the badger did
the fox, when he found him in his hole, and could not get him out
by evil savors."
"How then?"
"Stuck a sweet nosegay in the door, which turned reynard's stomach
at once; and so overcame evil with good."
"Well, thou art too good for this world, that's certain; so we will
go home to breakfast. Those rogues are out of sight by now."
Nevertheless, Amyas was not proof against the temptation of going
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