| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: of my desk and desiring him, in a tone which admitted of no
argument, to go below at once, pay Mr. Jacobus's bill, and send him
out of the ship.
"I don't want to see him," I confessed frankly, climbing the poop-
ladder. I felt extremely tired. Dropping on the seat of the
skylight, I gave myself up to idle gazing at the lights about the
quay and at the black mass of the mountain on the south side of the
harbour. I never heard Jacobus leave the ship with every single
sovereign of my ready cash in his pocket. I never heard anything
till, a long time afterwards, Mr. Burns, unable to contain himself
any longer, intruded upon me with his ridiculously angry
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST
When spring-time flushes the desert grass,
WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI
The wreath of banquet overnight lay withered on the neck,
THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE
This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,
THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: a telegraphist you soon ceased to be astonished. Her eye for types
amounted nevertheless to genius, and there were those she liked and
those she hated, her feeling for the latter of which grew to a
positive possession, an instinct of observation and detection.
There were the brazen women, as she called them, of the higher and
the lower fashion, whose squanderings and graspings, whose
struggles and secrets and love-affairs and lies, she tracked and
stored up against them till she had at moments, in private, a
triumphant vicious feeling of mastery and ease, a sense of carrying
their silly guilty secrets in her pocket, her small retentive
brain, and thereby knowing so much more about them than they
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