| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: Bergsons' farm-girls. . . . Again the murmur,
like water welling out of the ground. This time
he heard it more distinctly, and his blood was
quicker than his brain. He began to act, just as
a man who falls into the fire begins to act. The
gun sprang to his shoulder, he sighted mechani-
cally and fired three times without stopping,
stopped without knowing why. Either he shut
his eyes or he had vertigo. He did not see any-
thing while he was firing. He thought he heard
a cry simultaneous with the second report, but
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: thing.
"Here is the boat coming now," said Dain, his arm outstretched
towards a black speck on the water between the coast and the
islet.
They all looked at it and remained standing in silence till the
little canoe came gently on the beach and a man landed and walked
towards them. He stopped some distance off and hesitated.
"What news?" asked Dain.
"We have had orders secretly and in the night to take off from
this islet a man and a woman. I see the woman. Which of you is
the man?"
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: say fifteen shillings" -- and so on it went, and it added up
differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through,
with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles
treated as one.
There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a
narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen
the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten
school, accompanied by their nurse.
Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling
had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of
course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount
Peter Pan |
