| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: steel trap. Well, when we was a-fightin' this
atternoon, all-of-a-sudden he begin t' rip up an'
cuss an' beller at me. 'Yer shot, yeh blamed
infernal!'--he swear horrible--he ses t' me. I
put up m' hand t' m' head an' when I looked at
m' fingers, I seen, sure 'nough, I was shot. I
give a holler an' begin t' run, but b'fore I could
git away another one hit me in th' arm an' whirl'
me clean 'round. I got skeared when they was
all a-shootin' b'hind me an' I run t' beat all,
but I cotch it pretty bad. I've an idee I'd
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: be compared with the isolation of Robinson Crusoe, for
example; indeed, no two books could be more instructive to
set side by side than LES TRAVAILLEURS and this other of the
old days before art had learnt to occupy itself with what
lies outside of human will. Crusoe was one sole centre of
interest in the midst of a nature utterly dead and utterly
unrealised by the artist; but this is not how we feel with
Gilliat; we feel that he is opposed by a "dark coalition of
forces," that an "immense animosity" surrounds him; we are
the witnesses of the terrible warfare that he wages with "the
silent inclemency of phenomena going their own way, and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: brought home her little Frenchman;
she is drunk with love.--You have
plenty of time."
"Have you done?"
"Yes."
228 OLYMPIA
"Your dagger?" said the Duke
eagerly to the brigand.
"Here it is."
"Good. I hear the clatter of the
spring."
The Muse of the Department |
