| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: was surely impossible to Anthony the seaman directly after the
wrangling interview with Fyne the emissary of an order of things
which stops at the edge of the sea. How much he was disturbed I
couldn't tell because I did not know what that impetuous lover had
had to listen to.
"Going to take the old fellow to sea with them," I said. "Well I
really don't see what else they could have done with him. You told
your brother-in-law what you thought of it? I wonder how he took
it."
"Very improperly," repeated Fyne. "His manner was offensive,
derisive, from the first. I don't mean he was actually rude in
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: de Rouville's, and remained from nine till eleven. Excepting the
different topics of conversation, this evening was exactly like
the last. The two old men arrived at the same hour, the same game
of piquet was played, the same speeches made by the players, the
sum lost by Adelaide's friend was not less considerable than on
the previous evening; only Hippolyte, a little bolder, ventured
to chat with the young girl.
A week passed thus, and in the course of it the painter's
feelings and Adelaide's underwent the slow and delightful
transformations which bring two souls to a perfect understanding.
Every day the look with which the girl welcomed her friend grew
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: besieged by winter, as you may say; 'tis far better by the shore
than up among such places. I never thought I should like to live
up country."
"Why, just see the carriages ahead of us on the next rise!"
exclaimed Mrs. Blackett. "There's going to be a great gathering,
don't you believe there is, Almiry? It hasn't seemed up to now as
if anybody was going but us. An' 'tis such a beautiful day, with
yesterday cool and pleasant to work an' get ready, I shouldn't
wonder if everybody was there, even the slow ones like Phebe Ann
Brock."
Mrs. Blackett's eyes were bright with excitement, and even
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