| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: lovers, patrons, and servants of mankind.
And I take it, this is a type of our division; that you are one of
those who have an eye for faults and failures; that you take a
pleasure to find and publish them; and that, having found them, you
make haste to forget the overvailing virtues and the real success
which had alone introduced them to your knowledge. It is a
dangerous frame of mind. That you may understand how dangerous,
and into what a situation it has already brought you, we will (if
you please) go hand-in-hand through the different phrases of your
letter, and candidly examine each from the point of view of its
truth, its appositeness, and its charity.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: nal plan and dispatched Davidov on the Avos from
Oonalaska. Guns and provisions awaited the Juno
at Okhotsk, and in less than a week after his ar-
rival Rezanov was able to start on his long journey
with a mind at rest. Although the almost extrava-
gant delight that his body had taken in the com-
forts of his manager's home, after ten weeks on the
Juno, warned him that he might be in a better con-
dition to begin a journey of ten thousand versts, he
hearkened neither to the hint nor to the insistence
of his host. His impatient energy and stern will,
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from the palace.
A narrow alley ran past the building, ending abruptly
at the bank of the Thames in a moldering wooden dock,
beneath which the inky waters of the river rose and fell,
lapping the decaying piles and surging far beneath the
dock to the remote fastnesses inhabited by the great
fierce dock rats and their fiercer human antitypes.
Several times De Vac paced the length of this black
alley in search of the little doorway of the building he
sought. At length he came upon it, and, after repeated
pounding with the pommel of his sword, it was opened
The Outlaw of Torn |
