| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: of this?"
"I do hope so indeed, Miss Jacobus." I tried to speak in the easy
tone of an afternoon caller. "You see, I am here after some bags."
"Bags! Look at that now! Didn't I hear you holding forth to that
graceless wretch?"
"You would like to see me in my grave," uttered the motionless girl
hoarsely.
"Grave! What about me? Buried alive before I am dead for the sake
of a thing blessed with such a pretty father!" she cried; and
turning to me: "You're one of these men he does business with.
Well - why don't you leave us in peace, my good fellow?"
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: you brought to me, was directed to my son who resides in this very
place? And can you descry no difference between his letters and
those addressed to other people?'
'If you don't want it,' said Hugh, disconcerted by this reproof,
for he had expected high praise, 'give it me back, and I'll deliver
it. I don't know how to please you, master.'
'I shall deliver it,' returned his patron, putting it away after a
moment's consideration, 'myself. Does the young lady walk out, on
fine mornings?'
'Mostly--about noon is her usual time.'
'Alone?'
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: As if he were the last god going home
Unto his last desire.
Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
Till down the fiery distance he was gone, --
Like one of those eternal, remote things
That range across a man's imaginings
When a sure music fills him and he knows
What he may say thereafter to few men, --
The touch of ages having wrought
An echo and a glimpse of what he thought
A phantom or a legend until then;
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