| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: with faces of stone and mouths of sin, not nearly so pathetic as
the grey heads, tried to find the girl's eyes in the smoke wreaths.
Maggie considered she was not what they thought her. She confined
her glances to Pete and the stage.
The orchestra played negro melodies and a versatile drummer
pounded, whacked, clattered and scratched on a dozen machines to
make noise.
Those glances of the men, shot at Maggie from under half-closed lids,
made her tremble. She thought them all to be worse men than Pete.
"Come, let's go," she said.
As they went out Maggie perceived two women seated at a table
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: sary thing to happen.
"Come!" said the stranger.
"Yes, let us go," said the young Tsar, not
knowing where he was to go, but quite aware
that he could not help submitting to the com-
mand of the stranger. "But how shall we go?"
he asked.
"In this way."
The stranger laid his hand on the Tsar's head,
and the Tsar for a moment lost consciousness.
He could not tell whether he had been uncon-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: bank.
The red tint of his clear-cut face with trim short black whiskers
under a cap of curly iron-grey hair was the only warm spot in the
dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth. We knew
him already by sight as the owner of a little five-ton cutter, which
he sailed alone apparently, a fellow yachtsman in the unpretending
band of fanatics who cruise at the mouth of the Thames. But the
first time he addressed the waiter sharply as 'steward' we knew him
at once for a sailor as well as a yachtsman.
Presently he had occasion to reprove that same waiter for the
slovenly manner in which the dinner was served. He did it with
Chance |
