| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: But directly my eyes had rested on my ship all
my fear vanished. It went off swiftly, like a bad
dream. Only that a dream leaves no shame be-
hind it, and that I felt a momentary shame at my
unworthy suspicions.
Yes, there she was. Her hull, her rigging filled
my eye with a great content. That feeling of life-
emptiness which had made me so restless for the
last few months lost its bitter plausibility, its evil
influence, dissolved in a flow of joyous emotion.
At first glance I saw that she was a high-class
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: table and asked in his kind way: 'How did you find your mother,
Franklin?'--'The old lady's first-rate, sir, thank you.' And then
they had nothing to say to each other. It was a strange and
disturbing feeling for Franklin. He, just back from leave, the ship
just come to her loading berth, the captain just come on board, and
apparently nothing to say! The several questions he had been
anxious to ask as to various things which had to be done had slipped
out of his mind. He, too, felt as though he had nothing to say.
The captain, picking up his stick off the table, marched into his
state-room and shut the door after him. Franklin remained still for
a moment and then started slowly to go on deck. But before he had
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: MISS NEVILLE. I hope, cousin, one may speak to one's own relations,
and not be to blame.
TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,
though; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg
you'll keep your distance, I want no nearer relationship. [She
follows, coquetting him to the back scene.]
MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well! I vow, Mr. Hastings, you are very
entertaining. There's nothing in the world I love to talk of so much
as London, and the fashions, though I was never there myself.
HASTINGS. Never there! You amaze me! From your air and manner, I
concluded you had been bred all your life either at Ranelagh, St.
She Stoops to Conquer |
