| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: I did not answer.
"You're going away then?"
"Yes."
"Soon?"
"Right away."
"There's vour wife."
"I know."
"Shoesmith--whom you're pledged to in a manner. You've just picked
him out and made him conspicuous. Every one will know. Oh! of
course--it's nothing to you. Honour--"
"I know."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: ship growing bigger as she neared us, our boats with the rescued
men and the dismantled hull of the brig we were leaving behind, in
the large and placid embrace of its quietness, half lost in the
fair haze, as if in a dream of infinite and tender clemency. There
was no frown, no wrinkle on its face, not a ripple. And the run of
the slight swell was so smooth that it resembled the graceful
undulation of a piece of shimmering gray silk shot with gleams of
green. We pulled an easy stroke; but when the master of the brig,
after a glance over his shoulder, stood up with a low exclamation,
my men feathered their oars instinctively, without an order, and
the boat lost her way.
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: She sighed a happy little sigh of relief, and laughing
lightly, said:
"It is some old woman's bugaboo that you are haling
out of a dark corner of your imagination to frighten
yourself with. I do not fear, since I know that you must
be all good. There be no line of vice or deception
upon your face and you are very brave. So brave and
noble a man, Roger, has a heart of pure gold."
"Don't," he said, bitterly. "I cannot endure it. Wait
until I come again and then, oh my flower of all Eng-
land, if you have it in your heart to speak as you are
The Outlaw of Torn |
