| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: things occur to me.
I hope from my outcries about printing you do not think I want you
to keep my news or letters in a Blue Beard closet. I like all
friends to hear of me; they all should if I had ninety hours in the
day, and strength for all of them; but you must have gathered how
hard worked I am, and you will understand I go to bed a pretty
tired man.
29TH DECEMBER, [1889].
To-morrow (Monday, I won't swear to my day of the month; this is
the Sunday between Christmas and New Year) I go up the coast with
Mr. Clarke, one of the London Society missionaries, in a boat to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: have been very weak. There is no particular mention of
Tamatea's mother going to Papara, to the head chief of her
own clan, which would appear her natural recourse. On the
other hand, she seems to have visited various lesser chiefs
among the Tevas, and these to have excused themselves solely
on the danger of the enterprise. The broad distinction here
drawn between Nateva and Namunu-ura is therefore not
impossibly anachronistic.
Note 11, "HIOPA THE KING." Hiopa was really the name of the
king (chief) of Vaiau; but I could never learn that of the
king of Paea - pronounce to rhyme with the Indian AYAH - and
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: LORD WINDERMERE. Margaret, I came to ask you a great favour, and I
still ask it of you, though you have discovered what I had intended
you should never have known that I have given Mrs. Erlynne a large
sum of money. I want you to send her an invitation for our party
to-night. [Standing L. of her.]
LADY WINDERMERE. You are mad! [Rises.]
LORD WINDERMERE. I entreat you. People may chatter about her, do
chatter about her, of course, but they don't know anything definite
against her. She has been to several houses - not to houses where
you would go, I admit, but still to houses where women who are in
what is called Society nowadays do go. That does not content her.
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