| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: apparently unarmed, and certainly unattended, through the hostile
town. The Red Douglas, pot-bellied Kuma, having perhaps heard word
of the debauch, remained upon his fief; his vassals thus came
uncommanded to the feast, and swelled the following of Karaiti.
FRIDAY, JULY 26. - At night in the dark, the singers of Makin
paraded in the road before our house and sang the song of the
princess. 'This is the day; she was born to-day; Nei Kamaunave was
born to-day - a beautiful princess, Queen of Butaritari.' So I was
told it went in endless iteration. The song was of course out of
season, and the performance only a rehearsal. But it was a
serenade besides; a delicate attention to ourselves from our new
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: divers. I remembered his warning about a fifth of a second too
late.
When we at length emerged again into the broad light of day, I
contemplated my new bowler in some annoyance. It was bashed in
properly. A large dent- in shape somewhat resembling the Empire
of India- leered at me, its edges generously defined with
whitewash. Very trying.
My good host was greatly concerned, and begged to be allowed to
take the damaged headgear away and have it brushed. After a
little I consented, promising to walk round and look at the baths
while he was gone. The next moment he had disappeared.
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: skewer up a small family. Henchard, contrary to his wont,
went out one Saturday afternoon towards the market-place
from a curious feeling that he would like to pass a few
minutes on the spot of his former triumphs. Farfrae, to
whom he was still a comparative stranger, stood a few steps
below the Corn Exchange door--a usual position with him at
this hour--and he appeared lost in thought about something
he was looking at a little way off.
Henchard's eyes followed Farfrae's, and he saw that the
object of his gaze was no sample-showing farmer, but his own
stepdaughter, who had just come out of a shop over the way.
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
