| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: came out at the back of the house, where a narrow ditch, full of
stagnant water that overflowed from the river, separated
Almayer's campong from the rest of the settlement. The thick
bushes growing on the bank were hiding from her sight the large
courtyard with its cooking shed. Above them rose several thin
columns of smoke, and from behind the sound of strange voices
informed Taminah that the Men of the Sea belonging to the warship
had already landed and were camped between the ditch and the
house. To the left one of Almayer's slave-girls came down to the
ditch and bent over the shiny water, washing a kettle. To the
right the tops of the banana plantation, visible above the
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the death of the latter, notified his suspicions that the death
was caused by poison, given with intent to rob the said Smelkoff
of his money. This suspicion was corroborated on inquiry, which
proved:
1. That shortly before his death the said Smelkoff had received
the sum of 3,800 roubles from the bank. When an inventory of the
property of the deceased was made, only 312 roubles and 16
copecks were found.
2. The whole day and night preceding his death the said Smelkoff
spent with Lubka (alias Katerina Maslova) at her home and in the
lodging-house Mauritania, which she also visited at the said
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: distrusted his captain. Miscreant he had let himself be called,
and doubtless was, but she knew no harm could befall her from his
companions while he was alive to prevent it. A reassurance of
this came to her that evening in the fragment of a conversation
she overheard. They were passing her window which she had raised
on account of the heat when the low voices of two men came to
her.
"I tell you I'm not going, Leroy. Send Hardman," one said.
"Are you running this outfit, or am I, Neil?"
"You are. But I gave her my word. That's all there's to it."
Alice was aware that they had stopped and were facing each other
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