| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: the end on which he set the plate whirling. The plate, of
course, had a small indentation to keep it in its place on the
nail. He raised the plate in the air and inserted into the
first pole another of equal length, then another and still
another, which put the plate whirling in the air thirty feet
high.
Thus whirling he balanced it on his hand, on his arm, on his
thumb, on his forehead, and finally in his mouth, after which he
tossed the plate up, threw the pole aside and caught it as it
came down. The old manager standing by received the pole, but as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: "He has," whispered Babalatchi. "He will sleep heavily
to-night."
Mrs. Almayer looked doubtful.
"Sometimes the devil of strong gin makes him keep awake, and he
walks up and down the verandah all night, cursing; then we stand
afar off," explained Mrs. Almayer, with the fuller knowledge born
of twenty odd years of married life.
"But then he does not hear, nor understand, and his hand, of
course, has no strength. We do not want him to hear to-night."
"No," assented Mrs. Almayer, energetically, but in a cautiously
subdued voice. "If he hears he will kill."
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: And I am sorry when he's through.
When I am asking him for more
He says: "Why there's a candy store!
Let's us go there and see if they
Have got the kind we like to-day."
Then when we get back home my ma
Says: "You are spoiling Buddy, Pa."
My grandpa is my mother's pa,
I guess that's what all grandpas are.
And sometimes ma, all smiles, will say:
"You didn't always act that way.
Just Folks |
