| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: metaphysical species, and we angled as often as not in one another's
baskets. Once, in the midst of a serious talk, each found there was
a scrutinising eye upon himself; I own I paused in embarrassment at
this double detection; but Jones, with a better civility, broke into
a peal of unaffected laughter, and declared, what was the truth, that
there was a pair of us indeed.
EARLY IMPRESSIONS
We steamed out of the Clyde on Thursday night, and early on the
Friday forenoon we took in our last batch of emigrants at Lough
Foyle, in Ireland, and said farewell to Europe. The company was now
complete, and began to draw together, by inscrutable magnetisms, upon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: had gained the end of the branch and begun his
teetering, and I was creeping out after him, when
suddenly there came a low warning cry from Lop-Ear. I
looked down and saw him in the main fork of the tree
crouching close against the trunk. Instinctively I
crouched down upon the thick limb. Broken-Tooth
stopped teetering, but the branch would not stop, and
his body continued bobbing up and down with the
rustling leaves.
I heard the crackle of a dry twig, and looking down saw
my first Fire-Man. He was creeping stealthily along on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: adjacent sea and country - half-way over to Fife, there
is an outpost of light upon Inchkeith, and far to
seaward, yet another on the May.
And while you are looking, across upon the Castle
Hill, the drums and bugles begin to recall the scattered
garrison; the air thrills with the sound; the bugles sing
aloud; and the last rising flourish mounts and melts into
the darkness like a star: a martial swan-song, fitly
rounding in the labours of the day.
CHAPTER IX.
WINTER AND NEW YEAR.
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