| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: every day that passes is more impossible to me than the day
before."
The passion of that whisper went like a stab into his breast.
"What am I to tell you?" he murmured, as if with despair.
"Remember that every sunset makes it a day less. Do you think I
want you here?"
A bitter little laugh floated out into the starlight. Mrs.
Travers heard Lingard move suddenly away from her side. She
didn't change her pose by a hair's breadth. Presently she heard
d'Alcacer coming out of the Cage. His cultivated voice asked half
playfully:
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: taken into what some one called our "raggedy school" a few years
before. He was a glum looking boy--a boy without a smile. There
was a set expression on his face which might be interpreted as
"life is not worth living," or, which would be an equally
legitimate interpretation in the present instance, "these games
are of no importance. If you want them we can play any number of
them for you, but what will you do with them after you get them?"
All the crowd began at once to explain to Chi what we wanted,
and he looked more solemn than ever, then we came to his rescue.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: currents, and half way that of vegetation. As it flows it takes the
forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot
or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the
laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you
are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains
or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds. It is a truly
grotesque vegetation, whose forms and color we see imitated in
bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical
than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable leaves;
destined perhaps, under some circumstances, to become a puzzle to
future geologists. The whole cut impressed me as if it were a cave
Walden |
