| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated;
oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which
the headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body.
But strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances
than one, when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of
violence is discernible; the man being stark dead.
The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly
descried from the ship. Raising a piercing shriek--"The vial! the
vial!" Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further
hunting of the whale. This terrible event clothed the archangel with
Moby Dick |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: Eugenie turned abruptly to the chimney-piece to take the candlesticks.
"Here, Nanon, carry them away!" she said.
When she looked again towards her cousin she was still blushing, but
her looks could at least deceive, and did not betray the excess of joy
which innundated her heart; yet the eyes of both expressed the same
sentiment as their souls flowed together in one thought,--the future
was theirs. This soft emotion was all the more precious to Charles in
the midst of his heavy grief because it was wholly unexpected. The
sound of the knocker recalled the women to their usual station.
Happily they were able to run downstairs with sufficient rapidity to
be seated at their work when Grandet entered; had he met them under
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Of this his Nephewes purpose, to suppresse
His further gate heerein. In that the Leuies,
The Lists, and full proportions are all made
Out of his subiect: and we heere dispatch
You good Cornelius, and you Voltemand,
For bearing of this greeting to old Norway,
Giuing to you no further personall power
To businesse with the King, more then the scope
Of these dilated Articles allow:
Farewell, and let your hast commend your duty
Volt. In that, and all things, will we shew our duty
Hamlet |
