| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: We were facing aft then.
"What's to be done?" I asked, appalled.
"Nothing. Silence! Be a man, signorine."
"What else?" I said.
To show I could be a man, I resolved to utter no sound as long as
Dominic himself had the force to keep his lips closed. Nothing but
silence becomes certain situations. Moreover, the experience of
treachery seemed to spread a hopeless drowsiness over my thoughts
and senses. For an hour or more we watched our pursuer surging out
nearer and nearer from amongst the squalls that sometimes hid her
altogether. But even when not seen, we felt her there like a knife
The Mirror of the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: the bone.
This, he said, his friend managed so well, that they were not
suspected at all, but lay still till he was perfectly cured. He
gave me so many distinct accounts of his adventures, that it
is with great reluctance that I decline the relating them; but I
consider that this is my own story, not his.
I then inquired into the circumstances of his present case at
that time, and what it was he expected when he came to be
tried. He told me that they had no evidence against him, or
but very little; for that of three robberies, which they were all
charged with, it was his good fortune that he was but in one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: was like a pleasing sting to her hand. She lifted the garland of
roses from his head and flung it across the room.
"Come, Victor; you've posed long enough. Give Mrs. Highcamp
her scarf."
Mrs. Highcamp undraped the scarf from about him with her own
hands. Miss Mayblunt and Mr. Gouvernail suddenly conceived the
notion that it was time to say good night. And Mr. and Mrs.
Merriman wondered how it could be so late.
Before parting from Victor, Mrs. Highcamp invited him to call
upon her daughter, who she knew would be charmed to meet him and
talk French and sing French songs with him. Victor expressed his
Awakening & Selected Short Stories |
