| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: Fame. He loved her jealously, with an inextinguishable ardour and
an insatiable desire - he loved her with a masterful devotion and
an infinite trustfulness. In the plenitude of his passion he was
an exacting lover. And she never betrayed the greatness of his
trust! She attended him to the end of his life, and he died
pressing her last gift (nineteen prizes) to his heart. "Anchor,
Hardy - anchor!" was as much the cry of an ardent lover as of a
consummate seaman. Thus he would hug to his breast the last gift
of Fame.
It was this ardour which made him great. He was a flaming example
to the wooers of glorious fortune. There have been great officers
The Mirror of the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Hath taught them scornful tricks, and such disdain,
That they have murder'd this poor heart of mine;
And these mine eyes, true leaders to their queen,
But for thy piteous lips no more had seen. 504
'Long may they kiss each other for this cure!
O! never let their crimson liveries wear;
And as they last, their verdure still endure,
To drive infection from the dangerous year: 508
That the star-gazers, having writ on death,
May say, the plague is banish'd by thy breath.
'Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: She shuddered.
"I wouldn't care," he began, "only I spent my
last shillings on the railway fare and my last two-
pence on a shave--out of respect for the old man."
"Are you really Harry Hagberd?" she asked.
"Can you prove it?"
"Can I prove it? Can any one else prove it?"
he said jovially. "Prove with what? What do I
want to prove? There isn't a single corner in the
world, barring England, perhaps, where you could
not find some man, or more likely woman, that
To-morrow |
