| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: during which I seldom missed an opportunity of a
friendly chat with him. He told me this story of
his adventure with many flashes of white teeth and
lively glances of black eyes, at first in a sort of anx-
ious baby-talk, then, as he acquired the language,
with great fluency, but always with that singing,
soft, and at the same time vibrating intonation that
instilled a strangely penetrating power into the
sound of the most familiar English words, as if
they had been the words of an unearthly language.
And he always would come to an end, with many
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Silent whenever the harsh condemn,
And bearing it all for the love of them.
Only a dad but he gives his all,
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing with courage stern and grim
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen:
Only a dad, but the best of men.
HARD KNOCKS
I'm not the man to say that failure's sweet,
Nor tell a chap to laugh when things go
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: " 'Now,' said La Palferine one day, 'what am I to do to get rid of
Claudine?'
" 'Why, she is not at all troublesome; she leaves you master of your
actions,' objected we.
" 'That is true,' returned La Palferine, 'but I do not choose that
anything shall slip into my life without my consent.'
"From that day he set himself to torment Claudine. It seemed that he
held the bourgeoise, the nobody, in utter horror; nothing would
satisfy him but a woman with a title. Claudine, it was true, had made
progress; she had learned to dress as well as the best-dressed woman
of the Faubourg Saint-Germain; she had freed her bearing of the
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