| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: affiliations would shorten the last tedious steps of his ascent.
It was with that object that, a year earlier, he had fixed
his affections on Miss Bart; but in the interval he had
mounted nearer to the goal, while she had lost the power to
abbreviate the remaining steps of the way. All this she saw with
the clearness of vision that came to her in moments of
despondency. It was success that dazzled her--she could
distinguish facts plainly enough in the twilight of failure. And
the twilight, as she now sought to pierce it, was gradually
lighted by a faint spark of reassurance. Under the utilitarian
motive of Rosedale's wooing she had felt, clearly enough, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: take her away and back to the land of Sari, where she
told me she would be able to learn the whereabouts of
her mate. Just now I was going to the other end of the
island to see if a boat lay there, and if the way was
clear for our escape. Most of the boats are always away
now, for a great many of Hooja's men and nearly all the
slaves are upon the Island of Trees, where Hooja is hav-
ing many boats built to carry his warriors across the
water to the mouth of a great river which he discovered
while he was returning from Phutra--a vast river that
empties into the sea there."
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: out of the ground at the first breath of his approach.
Fortunately, his heart often fails him: he does not always blow
home upon our exposed coast; he has not the fearless temper of his
Westerly brother.
The natures of those two winds that share the dominions of the
great oceans are fundamentally different. It is strange that the
winds which men are prone to style capricious remain true to their
character in all the various regions of the earth. To us here, for
instance, the East Wind comes across a great continent, sweeping
over the greatest body of solid land upon this earth. For the
Australian east coast the East Wind is the wind of the ocean,
The Mirror of the Sea |
