| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: wondrous smile.
'Ah! but you do not!' I cried. 'And besides, there is this
--this between us.' And I picked up the Cardinal's letter. It
had fallen on the floor. She turned a shade paler. Then she
cried quickly,--
'Open it! open it! It is not sealed nor closed.'
I obeyed mechanically, dreading with a horrible dread what I
might see. Even when I had it open I looked at the finely
scrawled characters with eyes askance. But at last I made it
out. And it ran thus:--
'THE KING'S PLEASURE IS THAT M. GIL DE BERAULT, HAVING MIXED
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: I looked around me rather nervously, and regretted that I was unarmed.
Then I thought that the man I had just seen had been clothed
in bluish cloth, had not been naked as a savage would have been;
and I tried to persuade myself from that fact that he was after all
probably a peaceful character, that the dull ferocity of his countenance
belied him.
Yet I was greatly disturbed at the apparition. I walked
to the left along the slope, turning my head about and peering
this way and that among the straight stems of the trees.
Why should a man go on all-fours and drink with his lips? Presently I
heard an animal wailing again, and taking it to be the puma, I turned
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: A pause. They all looked at me, shaking their heads, their mouths full of
cherry stones.
"No wonder there is a repetition in England of that dreadful state of
things in Paris," said the Widow, folding her dinner napkin. "How can a
woman expect to keep her husband if she does not know his favourite food
after three years?"
"Mahlzeit!"
"Mahlzeit!"
I closed the door after me.
2. THE BARON.
"Who is he?" I said. "And why does he sit always alone, with his back to
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