| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: office by Father Damien which served only to publish the weakness
of that noble man. He was rough in his ways, and he had no
control. Authority was relaxed; Damien's life was threatened, and
he was soon eager to resign."
C. "Of Damien I begin to have an idea. He seems to have been a
man of the peasant class, certainly of the peasant type: shrewd,
ignorant and bigoted, yet with an open mind, and capable of
receiving and digesting a reproof if it were bluntly administered;
superbly generous in the least thing as well as in the greatest,
and as ready to give his last shirt (although not without human
grumbling) as he had been to sacrifice his life; essentially
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: "And she to me: The mightiest of all woes
Is in the midst of misery to be cursed
With bliss remembered."
[54] "Ond' ella, appresso d'un pio sospiro
, Gli occhi drizzo ver me con quel sembiante,
Che madre fa sopra figlinol deliro."
And, finally, the beginning of the eighth canto of the
"Purgatorio":--
"'T was now the hour that turneth back desire
In those who sail the sea, and melts the heart,
The day they've said to their sweet friends farewell;
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: "Mrs Verloc!" he exclaimed. "You here!"
It seemed impossible to him that she should have been drinking.
But one never knows. He did not go into that question, but
attentive not to discourage kind fate surrendering to him the widow
of Comrade Verloc, he tried to draw her to his breast. To his
astonishment she came quite easily, and even rested on his arm for
a moment before she attempted to disengage herself. Comrade
Ossipon would not be brusque with kind fate. He withdrew his arm
in a natural way.
"You recognised me," she faltered out, standing before him, fairly
steady on her legs.
The Secret Agent |
