| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: dust of one stage before hurrying forth upon another. Then
Modestine and I mounted the course of the Allier, which here led us
back into Gevaudan towards its sources in the forest of Mercoire.
It was but an inconsiderable burn before we left its guidance.
Thence, over a hill, our way lay through a naked plateau, until we
reached Chasserades at sundown.
The company in the inn kitchen that night were all men employed in
survey for one of the projected railways. They were intelligent
and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine,
until the state of the clock frightened us to rest. There were
four beds in the little upstairs room; and we slept six. But I had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: as if attracted, drawn and guided to each other by
a mysterious influence. They were a complete
couple. In her grey frock, palpitating with life,
generous of form, olympian and simple, she was in-
deed the siren to fascinate that dark navigator, this
ruthless lover of the five senses. From afar I
seemed to feel the masculine strength with which
he grasped those hands she had extended to him
with a womanly swiftness. Lena, a little pale,
nursing her beloved lump of dirty rags, ran to-
wards her big friend; and then in the drowsy si-
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: warmer than friendship allowed without committing himself to any
chance of a rebuff. Mac got as far as Nora Darling,
absentmindedly inserted a comma between the words, and there
stuck hopelessly. He looked enviously across at Bannister, whose
pencil was traveling rapidly down his note-book.
"My, what a swift trail your pencil leaves on that paper. That's
going some. Mine's bogged down before it got started. I wisht y'u
would start me off."
"Well, if you ain't up and started a business college already. I
had ought to have brought a typewriter along with me," murmured
Missou ironically.
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