| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: getting undermanned--let die who must. Only let it be a fair
game, Captain. Let's have a fair show."
Lingard assured him briefly he should have it. That was the very
reason he wanted the yacht's crew in the brig, he added. Then
quiet and grave he inquired whether that pistol was still in
Carter's pocket.
"Never mind that," said the young man, hurriedly. "Remember who
began. To be shot at wouldn't rile me so much--it's being
threatened, don't you see, that was heavy on my chest. Last night
is very far off though--and I will be hanged if I know what I
meant exactly when I took the old thing from its nail. There.
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: Do you see the lot of us there, putting a neat furl on the
sails of that ship doomed to arrive nowhere? There
was not a man who didn't think that at any moment the
masts would topple over. From aloft we could not see
the ship for smoke, and they worked carefully, passing
the gaskets with even turns. 'Harbor furl--aloft
there!' cried Mahon from below.
"You understand this? I don't think one of those
chaps expected to get down in the usual way. When
we did I heard them saying to each other, 'Well, I
thought we would come down overboard, in a lump--
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Than harried earth. It takes with unconcern
And quick forgetting, rapture of the rain
And agony of thunder, the moon's white
Soft-garmented virginity, and then
The insatiable ardor of the sun.
And me it took. But there is one more strong,
Love, that came laughing from the elder seas,
RIVERS TO THE SEA
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
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