| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: Rushed on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me he heard cry and ran,
but no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us!
Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog
lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.
If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide
us in the fog, which seems to move with us, and God seems to
have deserted us.
3 August.--At midnight I went to relieve the man at
the wheel and when I got to it found no one there.
The wind was steady, and as we ran before it there was
no yawing. I dared not leave it, so shouted for the mate.
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Heard them chattering like the magpies,
Heard them laughing like the blue-jays,
Heard them singing like the robins.
And whene'er some lucky maiden
Found a red ear in the husking,
Found a maize-ear red as blood is,
"Nushka!" cried they all together,
"Nushka! you shall have a sweetheart,
You shall have a handsome husband!"
"Ugh!" the old men all responded
From their seats beneath the pine-trees.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: house and he never spoke to me. Now I know why, Mr. Bernard;
but you might have told me at the time. The reason was
certainly good enough. I always want to know why, you know.
Why Gordon never told me, for instance; that 's what I want to
know!"
Blanche refused to sit down again; she declared that she was
so agitated by this charming news that she could not be quiet,
and that she must presently take her departure. Meanwhile she
congratulated each of her friends half a dozen times; she kissed
Mrs. Vivian again, she almost kissed Bernard; she inquired
about details; she longed to hear all about Angela's "things."
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