| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: and churches. It was difficult to keep one's conscience awake to
Baedeker and a sense of moral obligation; Ruskin was impossible,
and a picture-gallery was a penance. We floated lazily from one
place to another, and decided that, after all, it was too warm to
go in. The cries of the gondoliers, at the canal corners, grew
more and more monotonous and dreamy. There was danger of our
falling fast asleep and having to pay by the hour for a day's
repose in a gondola. If it grew much warmer, we might be compelled
to stay until the following winter in order to recover energy
enough to get away. All the signs of the times pointed northward,
to the mountains, where we should see glaciers and snow-fields, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: frailties of his womenkind.
"It's just the bones of a place. They hung things round it.
They draped it."
"But what things?" asked Sir Richmond.
"Oh! they had things all right. Skins perhaps. Mats of
rushes. Bast cloth. Fibre of all sorts. Wadded stuff."
"Stonehenge draped! It's really a delightful idea;" said the
father of the family, enjoying it.
"It's quite a possible one," said Sir Richmond.
"Or they may have used wicker," the young lady went on,
undismayed. She seemed to concede a point. "Wicker IS
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing round
me more closely.
As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many
tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily,
doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.
There was a sound of hammering. It is the box being nailed down.
Now I can hear the heavy feet tramping again along the hall,
with with many other idle feet coming behind them.
The door is shut, the chains rattle. There is a grinding of the key in
the lock. I can hear the key withdrawn, then another door opens and shuts.
I hear the creaking of lock and bolt.
Dracula |
