| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: It's perfectly delightful."
"Oh, I say, Percy!" exclaimed Lord Lambeth.
"I disagree," said Beaumont, stroking down his back hair,
"even to the point of not thinking it delightful."
"Oh, I say!" cried Lord Lambeth again.
"I don't see anything delightful in my disagreeing with Mrs. Westgate,"
said Percy Beaumont.
"Well, I do!" Mrs. Westgate declared; and she turned to her sister.
"You know you have to go to town. The phaeton is there.
You had better take Lord Lambeth."
At this point Percy Beaumont certainly looked straight at his kinsman;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: cellent officer); only, nowadays, professional merit alone
does not take a man along fast enough. A chap must
have some push in him, and must keep his wits at work
too to help him forward. He made up his mind to
inherit the charge of this steamer if it was to be done
at all; not indeed estimating the command of the
Sofala as a very great catch, but for the reason that,
out East especially, to make a start is everything, and
one command leads to another.
He began by promising himself to behave with great
circumspection; Massy's somber and fantastic humors
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: blazing magic of the sun. Soon her spirit would abandon her body and go on,
while her flesh and bone returned to dust. This frame of hers, that carried
the divine spark, belonged to the earth. She had only been ignorant,
mindless, feelingless, absorbed in the seeking of gain, blind to the truth.
She had to give. She had been created a woman; she belonged to nature; she
was nothing save a mother of the future. She had loved neither Glenn
Kilbourne nor life itself. False education, false standards, false
environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her
body on the milk and honey of indulgence.
She was abased now--woman as animal, though saved and uplifted by her power
of immortality. Transcendental was her female power to link life with the
The Call of the Canyon |
