| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: name the fifty rows of vines thou wouldest give me, whereof
each one ripened at divers times, with all manner of
clusters on their boughs, when the seasons of Zeus wrought
mightily on them from on high.'
So he spake, and straightway his knees were loosened, and
his heart melted within him, as he knew the sure tokens
that Odysseus showed him. About his dear son he cast his
arms, and the steadfast goodly Odysseus caught him fainting
to his breast. Now when he had got breath and his spirit
came to him again, once more he answered and spake, saying:
'Father Zeus, verily ye gods yet bear sway on high Olympus,
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: heart to another?"
Mrs. Weguelin replied quickly. "That answers very well where hearts
are in question."
"But," said I, "since phosphates are no longer--?"
There was a pause. "It would be a new dilemma," Mrs. Gregory then said
slowly, "if she turned out to care for him, after all."
Throughout all this I was getting more and more the sense of how a total
circle of people, a well-filled, wide circle of interested people,
surrounded and cherished John Mayrant, made itself the setting of which
he was the jewel; I felt in it, even stronger than the manifestation of
personal affection (which certainly was strong enough), a collective
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: that you could be of use. Willie is stupid sometimes. For it is
clear that you are the last man able to help."
"How on earth do I come to be mixed up in this - whatever it is?"
Renouard's voice was slightly altered by nervous irritation. "I
only arrived here yesterday morning."
CHAPTER II
His friend the Editor turned to him squarely. "Willie took me into
consultation, and since he seems to have let you in I may just as
well tell you what is up. I shall try to be as short as I can.
But in confidence - mind!"
He waited. Renouard, his uneasiness growing on him unreasonably,
Within the Tides |
