| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.
All the framework was black with time, and from the iron the paint
had mostly scaled away. It was evident that up to lately
there had been a large notice board in front of the balcony.
It had, however, been roughly torn away, the uprights which had
supported it still remaining. Behind the rails of the balcony I
saw there were some loose boards, whose raw edges looked white.
I would have given a good deal to have been able to see the notice
board intact, as it would, perhaps, have given some clue to the ownership
of the house. I remembered my experience of the investigation
and purchase of Carfax, and I could not but feel that I could find
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: whether mature or not mature (and who really is ever mature?) are
for the most part quite incapable of understanding what is happening
to them: a merciful provision of nature to preserve an average
amount of sanity for working purposes in this world . . . "
"But we, my dear Marlow, have the inestimable advantage of
understanding what is happening to others," I struck in. "Or at
least some of us seem to. Is that too a provision of nature? And
what is it for? Is it that we may amuse ourselves gossiping about
each other's affairs? You for instance seem--"
"I don't know what I seem," Marlow silenced me, "and surely life
must be amused somehow. It would be still a very respectable
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: them;-reclining therein; calling therein for much fruit and drink; and
beside them maids of modest glance, of their own age,-'This is what ye
were promised for the day of reckoning!'-'This is surely our
provision, it is never spent!'
This!-and, verily, for the rebellious is there an evil resort,-hell;
they shall broil therein, and an ill couch shall it be! This,-so let
them taste it!- hot water, and pus, and other kinds of the same
sort! 'This is an army plunged in with you! there is no welcome for
them! verily, they are going to broil in the fire!'
They shall say, 'Nay, for you too is there no welcome! it was ye who
prepared it beforehand for us, and an ill resting-place it is!'
The Koran |
