| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: For a long time I heard nothing but the whir and roar
of the fire. There were also whistling sounds. The boats
jumped, tugged at the painters, ran at each other play-
fully, knocked their sides together, or, do what we would,
swung in a bunch against the ship's side. I couldn't
stand it any longer, and swarming up a rope, clambered
aboard over the stern.
"It was as bright as day. Coming up like this, the
sheet of fire facing me, was a terrifying sight, and the
heat seemed hardly bearable at first. On a settee cushion
dragged out of the cabin, Captain Beard, with his legs
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
There he would sit down on the drawside and help her watch her cattle.
All the settlement was talking about it. The Norwegian preacher's
wife went to Lena and told her she ought not to allow this;
she begged Lena to come to church on Sundays. Lena said she hadn't
a dress in the world any less ragged than the one on her back.
Then the minister's wife went through her old trunks and found
some things she had worn before her marriage.
The next Sunday Lena appeared at church, a little late,
with her hair done up neatly on her head, like a young woman,
wearing shoes and stockings, and the new dress, which she had made
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: The sword or sceptre use or guide the same,
To rule in peace or to command in fight,
Thine offspring's glory and thy house's light.
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"His younger age foretokens true shall yield
Of future valor, puissance, force and might,
From him no rock the savage beast shall shield;
At tilt or tourney match him shall no knight:
After, he conquer shall in pitched field
Great armies and win spoils in single fight,
And on his locks, rewards for knightly praise,
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