| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: without showing any great concern.
They both went out, and I stared at the steward clearing the table.
There was nothing to be read on that wretched man's face.
But why did he avoid my eyes, I asked myself. Then I thought I
should like to hear the sound of his voice.
"Steward!"
"Sir!" Startled as usual.
"Where did you hang up that coat?"
"In the bathroom, sir." The usual anxious tone.
"It's not quite dry yet, sir."
For some time longer I sat in the cuddy. Had my double vanished
The Secret Sharer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: which was which; for they did not wish to know.
When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that,
whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness
of the question, and their regard for the public tranquillity,
the long and the short of the matter is, that they cannot
spare the protection of the existing government,
and they dread the consequences to their property and
families of disobedience to it. For my own part, I should
not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the
State. But, if I deny the authority of the State when it
presents its tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: fallen in love with you already, Miss--Bessie's your
name--eh?"
She backed away a little, and with a trembling
laugh:
"You haven't seen my face yet."
He bent forward gallantly. "A little pale: it
suits some. But you are a fine figure of a girl, Miss
Bessie."
She was all in a flutter. Nobody had ever said
so much to her before.
His tone changed. "I am getting middling
To-morrow |
