| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: stirs abroad at all.
ROWLEY. I doubt you'll find it so--but He's coming--I mustn't seem
to interrupt you--and you know immediately--as you leave him--I come
in to announce--your arrival in your real Character.
SIR OLIVER. True--and afterwards you'll meet me at Sir Peter's----
ROWLEY. Without losing a moment.
[Exit.]
SIR OLIVER. So--I see he has premeditated a Denial by the
Complaisance of his Features.
Enter SURFACE
SURFACE. Sir--I beg you ten thousand Pardons for keeping--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: because of his personal appearance: because of his eyes and his
eyebrows, and his mouth and his nose and his limbs. Nothing could
be more rational. And she thought him an evil man, because, to her
eyes, he looked evil. No ground for an opinion could be sounder.
In the dimness of the room, with only a nightlight burning at the
head of Freya's bed, the camerista crept out of her corner to
crouch at the feet of her mistress, supplicating in whispers:
"There's the brig. Captain Allen. Let us run away at once - oh,
let us run away! I am so frightened. Let us! Let us!"
"I! Run away!" thought Freya to herself, without looking down at
the scared girl. "Never."
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: effect and a deeper green. Whilst they were carefully regarding
this--Adam with the aid of an opera-glass--their nostrils were
assailed by a horrid stench, something like that which rose from the
well-hole in Diana's Grove.
By degrees, as their eyes got the right focus, they saw an immense
towering mass that seemed snowy white. It was tall and thin. The
lower part was hidden by the trees which lay between, but they could
follow the tall white shaft and the duplicate green lights which
topped it. As they looked there was a movement--the shaft seemed to
bend, and the line of green light descended amongst the trees. They
could see the green light twinkle as it passed between the
Lair of the White Worm |
