| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: misery of her childhood, the disappointment of her first love, the
departure of her nephew, the death of Virginia; all these things came
back to her at once, and, rising like a swelling tide in her throat,
almost choked her.
Then she wished to speak to the captain of the vessel, and without
stating what she was sending, she gave him some instructions.
Fellacher kept the parrot a long time. He always promised that it
would be ready for the following week; after six months he announced
the shipment of a case, and that was the end of it. Really, it seemed
as if Loulou would never come back to his home. "They have stolen
him," thought Felicite.
A Simple Soul |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: now."
"You are killing yourself, madame," I said to her in a moved
voice. "I wish I were a friend, a relation of yours, that I might
keep you from doing yourself harm like this."
"Ah! it is really not worth your while to alarm yourself," she
replied in a somewhat bitter tone; "see how much notice the
others take of me! They know too well that there is nothing to be
done."
Thereupon she got up, and, taking the candle, put it on the
mantel-piece and looked at herself in the glass.
"How pale I am!" she said, as she fastened her dress and passed
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: peal of that insane screeching. I was sure of it;
and just then Gambril, the austere Gambril, treated
us to another vocal performance. He began to
sing out for relief. His voice wailed pitifully in
the darkness: "Come aft somebody! I can't
stand this. Here she'll be off again directly and I
can't. . . ."
I dashed aft myself meeting on my way a hard
gust of wind whose approach Gambril's ear had
detected from afar and which filled the sails on the
main in a series of muffled reports mingled with the
The Shadow Line |
