| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: Ridgeways' yachting party this afternoon. Mrs. Ridgeway said she
was counting on you. They are going out with the 'Petrel.'"
"She didn't count above a hundred, though," answered Wilbur. "I
got your bid first, so I regretted the yachting party; and I guess
I'd have regretted it anyhow," and he grinned at her over his cup.
"Nice man," she said--adding on the instant, "I must go now,
Ross."
"Wait till I eat the sugar out of my cup," complained Wilbur.
"Tell me," he added, scraping vigorously at the bottom of the cup
with the inadequate spoon; "tell me, you're going to the hoe-down
to-night?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: accompanied by two horrible night-birds, escorted by a dock
policeman on the make, received by an asthmatic shadow of a ship-
keeper, warned not to make a noise in the darkness of the passage
because the captain and his wife were already on board. That in
itself was already somewhat unusual. Captains and their wives do
not, as a rule, join a moment sooner than is necessary. They prefer
to spend the last moments with their friends and relations. A ship
in one of London's older docks with their restrictions as to lights
and so on is not the place for a happy evening. Still, as the tide
served at six in the morning, one could understand them coming on
board the evening before.
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: she could without being observed. Tantalizingly the placing of
his familiar features persisted in eluding her. Where had she
known him? Under what conditions had they met before she had
seen him about the farm of Bwana? She ran over in her mind all
the few white men she ever had known. There were some who
had come to her father's douar in the jungle. Few it is
true, but there had been some. Ah, now she had it! She had
seen him there! She almost seized upon his identity and then
in an instant, it had slipped from her again.
It was mid afternoon when they suddenly broke out of the
jungle upon the banks of a broad and placid river. Beyond, upon
The Son of Tarzan |
