| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: unequal to a task requiring courage and judgment. Once he got
over the personal feeling he handed the ring to Jorgenson with
only one reservation, "You know, Tuan, that she must on no
account put it on her finger."
"Let her hang it round her neck," suggested Jorgenson, readily.
As Jorgenson moved toward the deckhouse it occurred to him that
perhaps now that woman Tom Lingard had taken in tow might take it
into her head to refuse to leave the Emma. This did not disturb
him very much. All those people moved in the dark. He himself at
that particular moment was moving in the dark. Beyond the simple
wish to guide Lingard's thought in the direction of Hassim and
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: tight, makes a circle, so as to catch one of the hind legs
just beneath the fetlock, and draws it close to the two front
legs: he then hitches the lazo, so that the three are bound
together. Then sitting on the horse's neck, he fixes a strong
bridle, without a bit, to the lower jaw: this he does by passing
a narrow thong through the eye-holes at the end of the
reins, and several times round both jaw and tongue. The
two front legs are now tied closely together with a strong
leathern thong, fastened by a slip-knot. The lazo, which
bound the three together, being then loosed, the horse rises
with difficulty. The Gaucho now holding fast the bridle
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Conflicting fire. Long time in even scale
The battle hung; till Satan, who that day
Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms
No equal, ranging through the dire attack
Of fighting Seraphim confused, at length
Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled
Squadrons at once; with huge two-handed sway
Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down
Wide-wasting; such destruction to withstand
He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield,
Paradise Lost |
