| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: he seemed to put it by as if in jesting, not without
bitterness.
The mistral blew in the city. The first day of that wind,
they say in the countries where its voice is heard, it blows
away all the dust, the second all the stones, and the third
it blows back others from the mountains. It was now come to
the third day; outside the pebbles flew like hail, and the
face of the river was puckered, and the very building-stones
in the walls of houses seemed to be curdled with the savage
cold and fury of that continuous blast. It could be heard to
hoot in all the chimneys of the city; it swept about the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: "And it's funny to think, Harry," he went on in a
big, subdued drone, "that of all the people on it there
seems only you and I left to remember this part of the
world as it used to be . . ."
He was ready to indulge in the sweetness of a senti-
mental mood had it not struck him suddenly that Cap-
tain Whalley, unstirring and without a word, seemed
to be awaiting something--perhaps expecting . . . He
gathered the reins at once and burst out in bluff, hearty
growls--
"Ha! My dear boy. The men we have known--the
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And then they shall hear strangely. Many with eyes
That are incredulous of the Mystery
Shall yet be driven to feel, and then to read
Where language has an end and is a veil,
Not woven of our words. Many that hate
Their kind are soon to know that without love
Their faith is but the perjured name of nothing.
I that have done some hating in my time
See now no time for hate; I that have left,
Fading behind me like familiar lights
That are to shine no more for my returning,
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