| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: as it could ever be.
"Five years next November."
The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another
minute. I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that
they help me make tea in the kitchen when the demoniac Finn brought it in
on a tray.
Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency
established itself. Gatsby got himself into a shadow and, while Daisy
and I talked, looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with
tense, unhappy eyes. However, as calmness wasn't an end in itself, I
made an excuse at the first possible moment, and got to my feet.
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: In the calm evening bright with stars . . . '
What do the strange words mean? you say,--
And touch my hand, and turn away.
XIII.
The half-shut doors through which we heard that music
Are softly closed. Horns mutter down to silence.
The stars whirl out, the night grows deep.
Darkness settles upon us. A vague refrain
Drowsily teases at the drowsy brain.
In numberless rooms we stretch ourselves and sleep.
Where have we been? What savage chaos of music
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: or danger.
Instantly the tribe took up the cry until "Kreeg-ahs!" rang
through the jungle about the clearing as apes swung quickly
to places of safety among the lower branches of the trees
and the great bulls hastened in the direction of Gunto.
And then into the clearing strode Numa, the lion-- majestic
and mighty, and from a deep chest issued the moan and the
cough and the rumbling roar that set stiff hairs to bristling
from shaggy craniums down the length of mighty spines.
Inside the clearing, Numa paused and on the instant
there fell upon him from the trees near by a shower
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
