| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: was - it's always one's best friend who does it! But I used to
read them sometimes - ten years ago. I dare say they were in
general rather stupider then; at any rate it always struck me they
missed my little point with a perfection exactly as admirable when
they patted me on the back as when they kicked me in the shins.
Whenever since I've happened to have a glimpse of them they were
still blazing away - still missing it, I mean, deliciously. YOU
miss it, my dear fellow, with inimitable assurance; the fact of
your being awfully clever and your article's being awfully nice
doesn't make a hair's breadth of difference. It's quite with you
rising young men," Vereker laughed, "that I feel most what a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: Almayer and vanished from my sight. The white fog swallowed them
up; and again there was a deep silence that seemed to extend for
miles up and down the stream. Still taciturn, Almayer started to
climb on board, and I went down from the bridge to meet him on
the after deck.
"Would you mind telling the captain that I want to see him very
particularly?" he asked me in a low tone, letting his eyes stray
all over the place.
"Very well. I will go and see."
With the door of his cabin wide open Captain C--, just back from
the bathroom, big and broad-chested, was brushing his thick,
Some Reminiscences |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: how you were able to get those dear little monkeys to use in Dorothy's
Surprise Cake."
So they sat down on a marble bench near to the Fountain of the Water of
Oblivion, and between them Dorothy and the Wizard related their adventures.
"I was dreadfully fussy while I was a woolly lamb," said Dorothy,
"for it didn't feel good, a bit. And I wasn't quite sure, you know,
that I'd ever get to be a girl again."
"You might have been a woolly lamb yet, if I hadn't happened to have
discovered that Magic Transformation Word," declared the Wizard.
"But what became of the walnut and the hickory-nut into which you
transformed those dreadful beast magicians?" inquired Ozma.
The Magic of Oz |
