| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: specie--all but two short bills on 'Frisco. And the sum? Well,
this whole adventure, including two thousand pounds of credit,
cost us two thousand seven hundred and some odd. That's all
paid back; in thirty days' cruise we've paid for the schooner and
the trade. Heard ever any man the match of that? And it's not
all! For besides that," said the captain, hammering his words,
"we've got Thirteen Blooming Hundred Pounds of profit to
divide. I bled him in four Thou.!" he cried, in a voice that
broke like a schoolboy's.
For a moment the partners looked upon their chief with
stupefaction, incredulous surprise their only feeling. Tommy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: read and turned one after another of those little pages, James kept
dreading the moment when he would look up and speak sharply to him
about something or other. Why were they lagging about here? he would
demand, or something quite unreasonable like that. And if he does,
James thought, then I shall take a knife and strike him to the heart.
He had always kept this old symbol of taking a knife and striking his
father to the heart. Only now, impotent rage, it was not him, that old
man reading, whom he wanted to kill, but it was the thing that
descended on him--without his knowing it perhaps: that fierce sudden
black-winged harpy, with its talons and its beak all cold and hard,
that struck and struck at you (he could feel the beak on his bare legs,
To the Lighthouse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: manuscript on the table and rang the bell. She gave it to the servant.
"Tell the boy to give this to his master, and say the article ends rather
abruptly; they must state it is to be continued; I will finish it tomorrow.
As he passes No. 20 let him leave this note there."
The servant went out. She walked up and down with her hands folded above
her head.
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Two months after, the older woman stood before the fire. The door opened
suddenly, and the younger woman came in.
"I had to come--I couldn't wait. You have heard, he was married this
morning? Oh, do you think it is true? Do help me!" She put out her
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