| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: home; just so the single voices issue from and fall again into the
general volume; just so do the performers separate and crowd
together, brandish the raised hand, and roll the eye to heaven - or
the gallery. Already this is beyond the Thespian model; the art of
this people is already past the embryo: song, dance, drums,
quartette and solo - it is the drama full developed although still
in miniature. Of all so-called dancing in the South Seas, that
which I saw in Butaritari stands easily the first. The HULA, as it
may be viewed by the speedy globe-trotter in Honolulu, is surely
the most dull of man's inventions, and the spectator yawns under
its length as at a college lecture or a parliamentary debate. But
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: have two cars waiting about. Now, Miss Tuppence, my advice to
you is to go and have a good dinner, a REALLY good one, mind. And
don't think ahead more than you can help."
He shook hands with them both, and a moment later they were
outside.
"Isn't he a duck?" inquired Tuppence ecstatically, as she skipped
down the steps. "Oh, Julius, isn't he just a duck?"
"Well, I allow he seems to be the goods all right. And I was
wrong about its being useless to go to him. Say, shall we go
right away back to the Ritz?"
"I must walk a bit, I think. I feel so excited. Drop me in the
Secret Adversary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: All the higher animals probably, possibly even the lower too, have
experienced some such realization of individual identity. However
that may be, certainly to all races of men has come this revelation;
only the degree in which they have felt its force has differed
immensely. It is one thing to the apathetic, fatalistic Turk, and
quite another matter to an energetic, nervous American. Facts,
fancies, faiths, all show how wide is the variance in feelings.
With them no introspective [greek]cnzhi seauton overexcites the
consciousness of self. But with us; as with those of old possessed
of devils, it comes to startle and stays to distress. Too apt is it
to prove an ever-present, undesirable double. Too often does it
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