| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: soberly:
"Then I see nothing for it but to fit in a neat fiddlehead -
perhaps. You know, carved scrollwork, nicely gilt."
He became very dejected after his outburst.
"Yes. Scrollwork. Maybe. Jacobus hinted at that too. He's never
at a loss when there's any money to be extracted from a sailorman.
He would make me pay through the nose for that carving. A gilt
fiddlehead did you say - eh? I dare say it would do for you. You
young fellows don't seem to have any feeling for what's proper."
He made a convulsive gesture with his right arm.
"Never mind. Nothing can make much difference. I would just as
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: will call for them."
"To-day?"
"No, to-morrow; I shall not have time to day."
"Well, to-morrow I will leave them when I go to Auteuil."
"May I depend on it?"
"Certainly."
"Because I shall secure my housekeeper on the strength of
it."
"Now see here, will that be all? Eh? And will you not
torment me any more?"
"Never." Caderousse had become so gloomy that Andrea feared
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: from sight of any land. On the fifth day the sailors were nervous,
but the captain apologized for their fears, saying that the ship
was about to pass over the weedy walls and broken columns of a
sunken city too old for memory, and that when the water was clear
one could see so many moving shadows in that deep place that simple
folk disliked it. He admitted, moreover, that many ships had been
lost in that part of the sea; having been hailed when quite close
to it, but never seen again.
That night the moon was very bright,
and one could see a great way down in the water. There was so
little wind that the ship could not move much, and the ocean was
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
