| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: shoulder and staff in hand, left our station for the coast.
And several times a week a coast caravan came in with
trade goods--ghastly glazed calico that made you shudder
only to look at it, glass beads value about a penny a quart,
confounded spotted cotton handkerchiefs. And no rivets.
Three carriers could have brought all that was wanted to set
that steamboat afloat.
"He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive
attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged
it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil,
let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well,
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Tell if thou dedest evere so.
Mi fader, hou? Mi Sone, thus,-
If thou hast stolen eny cuss
Or other thing which therto longeth,
For noman suche thieves hongeth: 6560
Tell on forthi and sei the trouthe.
Mi fader, nay, and that is routhe,
For be mi will I am a thief;
Bot sche that is to me most lief,
Yit dorste I nevere in privete
Noght ones take hire be the kne,
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: to wonder if the poor child might not be able at
least to sing a little, and so make up for -- other
things; and now she tries to sing high like Lily Jen-
nings, and I simply cannot prevent it. She has
heard Lily play, too, and has lost her own touch, and
now it is neither one thing nor the other."
"I might speak to her mother," said Madame,
thoughtfully. Madame was American born, but she
married a French gentleman, long since deceased,
and his name sounded well on her circulars. She
and her two under teachers were drinking tea in her
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