| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: looking saint I ever saw. While he marched up the steps of the
Grand Stand, the choir struck up, -
The whole wide heaven groans,
And waits to hear that voice."
There were four gorgeous tents standing side by side in the place
of honor, on a broad railed platform in the centre of the Grand
Stand, with a shining guard of honor round about them. The tents
had been shut up all this time. As the barkeeper climbed along up,
bowing and smiling to everybody, and at last got to the platform,
these tents were jerked up aloft all of a sudden, and we saw four
noble thrones of gold, all caked with jewels, and in the two middle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: graceful in outline as if carved from ivory by Polyclitus. With a
movement a little awkward and at the same time charming, it felt about
the wall an instant, as if seeking something, then took down a tunic
hanging upon a hook near the doorway, and disappeared.
An elderly female attendant passed quietly through the room, lifted
the portiere, and went out. A sudden recollection pierced the memory
of the tetrarch.
"Is that woman one of thy slaves?" he asked.
"What matters that to thee?" was the disdainful reply.
CHAPTER III
The great banqueting-hall was filled with guests. This apartment had
Herodias |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: light in a moment."
But going forward I met Ransome bringing up
the spare binnacle lamp. That man noticed
everything, attended to everything, shed comfort
around him as he moved. As he passed me he re-
marked in a soothing tone that the stars were com-
ing out. They were. The breeze was sweeping
clear the sooty sky, breaking through the indolent
silence of the sea.
The barrier of awful stillness which had encom-
passed us for so many days as though we had been
The Shadow Line |
