| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Then he took his head in and pulled up the window.
"Fancy you two being in the next carriage all the time," said
Daphne. "I expect Boy's introduced himself, Julia dear. Yes, I
thought so. Still for what it's worth, my brother- Lady Julia
Lory."
Which is why she's 'my lady'. Though she always says it isn't.
CHAPTER X
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE
"Who is Silvia? What is she?
That all her swains commend he.
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "Did you recognize Mr. Turnbull in his burglar's make-up when you
confronted him in the police court?" Parker drew out copy paper and
a pencil, and waited for her reply. There was a pause.
"I did not recognize Mr. Turnbull in court," she stated finally.
"His death was a frightful shock."
"Sure. It was to everybody," agreed Parker. "How about your sister,
Miss Barbara; did she recognize him?"
"No." faintly.
Parker showed his disappointment; he was not eliciting much
information. Abruptly he turned to Clymer, whose prominent position
in the financial world made him a familiar figure to all
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: master in his own ship - he can land whenever he will - he can
never be kept beating off a lee-shore a whole frosty night when the
sheets are as hard as iron; and so far as I can make out, time
stands as nearly still with him as is compatible with the return of
bed-time or the dinner-hour. It is not easy to see why a bargee
should ever die.
Half-way between Willebroek and Villevorde, in a beautiful reach of
canal like a squire's avenue, we went ashore to lunch. There were
two eggs, a junk of bread, and a bottle of wine on board the
ARETHUSA; and two eggs and an Etna cooking apparatus on board the
CIGARETTE. The master of the latter boat smashed one of the eggs
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