| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: own shadow. He is shirking it with Cloete, too. Gives his partner
to understand that his brother has half a mind to try a spell on
shore, and so on. Cloete waits, gnawing his fingers; so anxious.
Cloete really had found a man for the job. Believe it or not, he
had found him inside the very boarding-house he lodged in -
somewhere about Tottenham Court Road. He had noticed down-stairs a
fellow - a boarder and not a boarder - hanging about the dark -
part of the passage mostly; sort of 'man of the house,' a slinking
chap. Black eyes. White face. The woman of the house - a widow
lady, she called herself - very full of Mr. Stafford; Mr. Stafford
this and Mr. Stafford that. . . Anyhow, Cloete one evening takes
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "To the nearest police station." Muller told the story as it had
come to him.
The old man listened with an expression of such utter dazed terror
that the detective dropped all suspicion of him at once.
"What a terrible riddle," stammered the sick man as the other
finished the story.
"Would you answer me several questions?" asked Muller. The old
gentleman answered quickly, "Any one, every one."
"Miss Langen is rich?"
"She has a fortune of over three hundred thousand guldens, and
considerable land."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the
outcome of a long-continued underground habit. In the first
place, there was the bleached look common in most animals that
live largely in the dark--the white fish of the Kentucky caves,
for instance. Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for
reflecting light, are common features of nocturnal things--
witness the owl and the cat. And last of all, that evident
confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight
towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while
in the light--all reinforced the theory of an extreme
sensitiveness of the retina.
The Time Machine |
