| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: with a sort of ostentation.
"It's late - and since we are going to sleep on board to-night . .
." she said. "But it does seem so cruel."
The professor started up eagerly, knocking the ashes out of his
pipe. "Infinitely more sensible, my dear Emma."
Renouard waited behind Miss Moorsom's chair.
She got up slowly, moved one step forward, and paused looking at
the shore. The blackness of the island blotted out the stars with
its vague mass like a low thundercloud brooding over the waters and
ready to burst into flame and crashes.
"And so - this is Malata," she repeated dreamily, moving towards
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: at a christening. It sometimes happens during a lesson in
mathematics, when the very air is still with boredom, a
butterfly flutters into the class-room; the boys toss their heads
and begin watching its flight with interest, as though they saw
before them not a butterfly but something new and strange; in the
same way ordinary champagne, chancing to come into our dreary
station, roused us. We sat in silence looking alternately at the
clock and at the bottles.
When the hands pointed to five minutes to twelve I slowly began
uncorking a bottle. I don't know whether I was affected by the
vodka, or whether the bottle was wet, but all I remember is that
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: kept his entire head shaved close. He called himself Fundi, which
means The Expert, a sufficient indication of his confidence in
himself.
He awaited us leaning on his safari stick, panting heavily, the
sweat running off his face in splashes. "Simba!"* said he, and
immediately set off on a long, easy lope ahead of us. We pulled
down to a trot and followed him.
*Lion
At the end of a half mile we made out a man up a tree. Fundi, out
of breath, stopped short and pointed to this man. The latter, as
soon as he had seen us, commenced to scramble down. We spurred
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