| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: drop me, sir!" While I kept on shouting to him in
most soothing accents: "All right, Gambril.
They won't! They won't!"
It was no doubt very ridiculous. The blue-
jackets on our deck were grinning quietly, while
even Ransome himself (much to the fore in lending
a hand) had to enlarge his wistful smile for a fleet-
ing moment.
I left for the shore in the steam pinnace, and on
looking back beheld Mr. Burns actually standing
up by the taffrail, still in his enormous woolly over-
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Then there was another meaning in them, a light, a strange fire
wholly inexplicable to Duane. It was only a flash gone in an
instant. But he remembered it because he had never seen it in
any other woman's eyes. And all through those waiting days he
knew that Jennie's face, and especially the warm, fleeting
glance she gave him, was responsible for a subtle and gradual
change in him. This change he fancied, was only that through
remembrance of her he got rid of his pale, sickening ghosts.
One day a careless Mexican threw a lighted cigarette up into
the brush matting that served as a ceiling for Benson's den,
and there was a fire which left little more than the adobe
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: course I laughed at it, but only 'pour l'honneur' and to show I
understood perfectly. In reality it left me completely
indifferent."
Dona Rita looked very serious for a minute.
"Indifferent to the whole conversation?"
I looked at her angrily.
"To the whole . . . You see I got up rather out of sorts this
morning. Unrefreshed, you know. As if tired of life."
The liquid blue in her eyes remained directed at me without any
expression except that of its usual mysterious immobility, but all
her face took on a sad and thoughtful cast. Then as if she had
The Arrow of Gold |
