| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: rily casts eyes at in a sense. She made no noise,
but she filled most satisfactorily a good bit of space.
"But you, captain, are not the same kind of
man," observed Hermann.
I was not, I am happy to say, in a position to
deny this. "What about the lady?" I could not
help asking. At this he gazed for a time into my
face, earnestly, and made as if to change the sub-
ject. I heard him beginning to mutter something
unexpected, about his children growing old enough
to require schooling. He would have to leave them
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: arms and giving her a kiss.
"Good-bye," she said; "there is no consolation when you have lost that
which has seemed to you the infinite."
A week later Paul de Manerville met De Marsay in the Tuileries, on the
Terrasse de Feuillants.
"Well, what has become of our beautiful girl of the golden eyes, you
rascal?"
"She is dead."
"What of?"
"Consumption."
PARIS, March 1834-April 1835.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: greet the gathering daylight.
It became a little clamour, a misty sea of sound in which
individuality appeared and disappeared. For a time a distant
cuckoo was very perceptible, like a landmark looming up over a
fog, like the cuckoo in the Pastoral Symphony.
The bishop tried not to heed these sounds, but they were by
their very nature insistent sounds. He lay disregarding them
acutely.
Presently he pulled the coverlet over his ears.
A little later he sat up in bed.
Again in a slight detail he marked his strange and novel
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