| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: look at types?"
"Yes - we found so many: he has such an observation of them! He
talked a great deal about your book. He says it's really
important."
"Important! Ah the grand creature!" - and the author of the work
in question groaned for joy.
"He was wonderfully amusing, he was inexpressibly droll, while we
walked about. He sees everything; he has so many comparisons and
images, and they're always exactly right. C'est d'un trouve, as
they say."
"Yes, with his gifts, such things as he ought to have done!" Paul
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, care-
fully put on before a glass.
All the ancient men ran in a jumbled throng after
her to the clover-field, Joseph sinking down in the
midst when about half-way, like an individual withering
in a world which was more and more insupportable.
Having once received the stimulus that her presence
always gave them they went round among the sheep
with a will. The majority of the afflicted animals were
lying down, and could not be stirred. These were
bodily lifted out, and the others driven into the adjoining
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: crowned, well-varnished black hat, worn on the back of the head,
with half a fathom of black ribbon hanging over the left eye, and
a peculiar tie to the black silk neckerchief."
Though Dana sailed from Boston only three-quarters of a century
ago, much that is at present obsolete was then in full sway. For
instance, the old word LARBOARD was still in use. He was a member
of the LARBOARD watch. The vessel was on the LARBOARD tack. It
was only the other day, because of its similarity in sound to
starboard, that LARBOARD was changed to PORT. Try to imagine "All
larboard bowlines on deck!" being shouted down into the forecastle
of a present day ship. Yet that was the call used on the Pilgrim
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