| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: was new to him and most attractive. "The train of the peacock," as
he said to himself, "and yet the heart of the dove," made so
charming a combination, that if he could have persuaded her to love
no one but him, perhaps he might become fool enough to love no one
but her. And at that thought he was seized with a very panic of
prudence, and resolved to keep out of her way; and yet the days ran
slowly, and Lady Grenville when at home was stupid enough to talk
and think about nothing but her husband; and when she went to Stow,
and left the Don alone in one corner of the great house at
Bideford, what could he do but lounge down to the butt-gardens to
show off his fine black cloak and fine black feather, see the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: downcast eyes. When she did so it was with an extraordinary effect.
It was like catching sight of a piece of blue sky, of a stretch of
open water. And for a moment I understood the desire of that man to
whom the sea and sky of his solitary life had appeared suddenly
incomplete without that glance which seemed to belong to them both.
He was not for nothing the son of a poet. I looked into those
unabashed eyes while the girl went on, her demure appearance and
precise tone changed to a very earnest expression. Woman is various
indeed.
"But I want you to understand, Mr. . . . " she had actually to think
of my name . . . "Mr. Marlow, that I have written to Mrs. Fyne that
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: New Haven Railroad bought copies of the 'Outlook' without any
previous understanding or arrangement as anybody is entitled to
buy copies of the 'Outlook'." I might point out that this does
not really say as much as it seems to; for the President of every
magazine company in America knows without any previous
understanding or arrangement that any time he cares to print an
article such as Mr. Baxter's, dealing with the affairs of a great
corporation, he can sell ten thousand copies to that corporation.
The late unlamented Elbert Hubbard wrote a defense of the
Rockefeller slaughter of coal-miners, published it in "The Fra,"
and came down to New York and unloaded several tons at 26
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