| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: capable young woman. The spitting wildcat of the street
fight so long ago was gentler by far than this cool person
who was so deliberately taking his job away from Slosson.
You, too, feel that way about her? That is as it should be.
It is the penalty they pay who, given genius, sympathy, and
understanding as their birthright, trade them for the tawdry
trinkets money brings.
Perhaps the last five minutes of that conference between
Fanny and Michael Fenger reveals a new side, and presents
something of interest. It was a harrowing and unexpected
five minutes.
Fanny Herself |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: in the little dip five spear throws to the right of the mouth of
the kloof where live the old herdsman and his people who guard my
cattle. He and all the rest are away with the cattle that are
hidden in the Ceza Forest out of reach of the white men, so the
huts are empty. Oh! now I read what you are thinking. I do not
mean that he should be taken there. It is too near my house and
the king still has friends."
"Why did you send Nombe?" I asked.
"Because he would have no other guide, who does not trust my men.
He means to keep her with him for some days and then let her go,
and thus she will be out of mischief. Meanwhile you and your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: possession is an outward thing; inwardly they flutter, perhaps
because they are, or they feel themselves to be, engaged. All this
speaking generally. In Flora de Barral's particular case ever since
Anthony had suddenly broken his way into her hopeless and cruel
existence she lived like a person liberated from a condemned cell by
a natural cataclysm, a tempest, an earthquake; not absolutely
terrified, because nothing can be worse than the eve of execution,
but stunned, bewildered--abandoning herself passively. She did not
want to make a sound, to move a limb. She hadn't the strength.
What was the good? And deep down, almost unconsciously she was
seduced by the feeling of being supported by this violence. A
Chance |
