| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: not give him the right, as Lizzie's brother and guardian, to offer
in return a handsome present to the Baroness. It would have made him
extremely happy to be able to offer a handsome present to the Baroness;
but he abstained from this expression of his sentiments, and they were
in consequence, at the very last, by so much the less comfortable.
It was almost at the very last that he saw her--late the night before she
went to Boston to embark.
"For myself, I wish you might have stayed," he said.
"But not for your own sake."
"I don't make so many differences," said the Baroness.
"I am simply sorry to be going."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: circuitous way or other, and this time I took care of the strength.
The only insurmountable obstacle was that I had no vessel to contain
the water I should need if I floated forth upon these untravelled seas.
I would have even tried pottery, but the island contained no clay.
I used to go moping about the island trying with all my might
to solve this one last difficulty. Sometimes I would give
way to wild outbursts of rage, and hack and splinter some
unlucky tree in my intolerable vexation. But I could think
of nothing.
And then came a day, a wonderful day, which I spent in ecstasy.
I saw a sail to the southwest, a small sail like that of a little schooner;
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell.
He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet
to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter
anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household
who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming
of the day.
"Only at certain times can he have limited freedom.
If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can
only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset.
These things we are told, and in this record of ours we have
Dracula |
