| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "No, Villiers; I came into all the property at my poor
father's death; he died a year after I left Oxford. He was a
very good father to me, and I mourned his death sincerely
enough. But you know what young men are; a few months later I
came up to town and went a good deal into society. Of course I
had excellent introductions, and I managed to enjoy myself very
much in a harmless sort of way. I played a little, certainly,
but never for heavy stakes, and the few bets I made on races
brought me in money--only a few pounds, you know, but enough
to pay for cigars and such petty pleasures. It was in my second
season that the tide turned. Of course you have heard of my
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: it somehow.
THEN Hunca Munca went
back and fetched a chair,
a bookcase, a bird-cage, and
several small odds and ends.
The bookcase and the bird-cage
refused to go into the mouse-hole.
HUNCA MUNCA left
them behind the coal-
box, and went to fetch a cradle.
HUNCA MUNCA was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: a man-horse, it is true, but a man-boat. He lived
on board his tug, which was always dashing up and
down the river from early morn till dewy eve.
In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick
out far away down the reach his beard borne high
up on the white structure, foaming up stream to
anchor for the night. There was the white-clad
man's body, and the rich brown patch of the hair,
and nothing below the waist but the 'thwart-ship
white lines of the bridge-screens, that lead the eye
to the sharp white lines of the bows cleaving the
Falk |
