| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: dark on the way to a confounded flickering light where there will
be no other supper but a piece of a stale sausage and a draught of
leathery wine out of a stinking skin. Pah!"
I had good hold of his arm. Suddenly he dropped the formal French
and pronounced in his inflexible voice:
"For a pair of white arms, Senor. Bueno."
He could understand.
CHAPTER III
On our return from that expedition we came gliding into the old
harbour so late that Dominic and I, making for the cafe kept by
Madame Leonore, found it empty of customers, except for two rather
The Arrow of Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: NED. [Growing complacent.] Now my dear child, you are worrying
yourself over trifles. [His second hand joins the first in
holding her hands.] Women do it every day. Because you have
changed your mind, or did not know you mind, because you have--to
use an unnecessarily harsh word--jilted a man -
LORETTA. [Interrupting, raising her head and looking at him.]
Jilted? Oh Ned, if that were a all!
NED. [Hollow voice.] All!
[NED's hands slowly retreat from hers. He opens his mouth as
though to speak further, then changes his mind and remains
silent.]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: daughter, established in the rue de Crussol, were enjoying a modest
competence. It was to this protector of the arts--to use the
consecrated phrase--that the theatre owed the brilliant danseuse. The
generous Maecenas made two beings almost beside themselves with joy in
the possession of mahogany furniture, hangings, carpets, and a regular
kitchen; he allowed them a woman-of-all-work, and gave them two
hundred and fifty francs a month for their living. Pere Cardot, with
his hair in "pigeon-wings," seemed like an angel, and was treated with
the attention due to a benefactor. To him this was the age of gold.
For three years the warbler of "Mere Godichon" had the wise policy to
keep Mademoiselle Cabirolle and her mother in this little apartment,
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