| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Gore, about a furlong from the doors of the Albert Hall. "A
short hour and a quarter, and we shall be there. Can anyone tell
me why I consented to come?"
"To please yourself," said Daphne shortly.
"Wrong," said her husband. "The correct answer will appear in
our next issue. Five million consolation prizes will be awarded
to those who, in the opinion of- "
"Have you got the tickets?" said his wife.
"Tickets!" said Berry contemptuously. "I've had to put my
handkerchief in my shoe, and my cigarette-case has lodged
slightly to the right and six inches below my heart. You'll have
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: But the face was thin, furrowed, worn; I discov-
ered that through the bush of his hair, as you may
detect the gnarled shape of a tree trunk lost in a
dense undergrowth. These overgrown cheeks were
sunken. It was an anchorite's bony head fitted with
a Capuchin's beard and adjusted to a herculean
body. I don't mean athletic. Hercules, I take it,
was not an athlete. He was a strong man, suscep-
tible to female charms, and not afraid of dirt.
And thus with Falk, who was a strong man. He
was extremely strong, just as the girl (since I
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: accordance with the ideas of the time, that a downright atheist cannot
believe in the sons of gods or in divine things. The notion that demons or
lesser divinities are the sons of gods is not to be regarded as ironical or
sceptical. He is arguing 'ad hominem' according to the notions of
mythology current in his age. Yet he abstains from saying that he believed
in the gods whom the State approved. He does not defend himself, as
Xenophon has defended him, by appealing to his practice of religion.
Probably he neither wholly believed, nor disbelieved, in the existence of
the popular gods; he had no means of knowing about them. According to
Plato (compare Phaedo; Symp.), as well as Xenophon (Memor.), he was
punctual in the performance of the least religious duties; and he must have
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