| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: incongruous and out of all harmony with the dull flare of the
kerosene lamps.
As Annixter glanced about him, he saw a figure step briskly out
of the shadows of one corner of the building, pause for the
fraction of one instant in the bar of light, then, at sight of
him, dart back again. There was a sound of hurried footsteps.
Annixter, with recollections of the stolen buckskin in his mind,
cried out sharply:
"Who's there?"
There was no answer. In a second his pistol was in his hand.
"Who's there? Quick, speak up or I'll shoot."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: the parson] How much more money are you going to give him?
REV. S. Not another penny. He has had his patrimony; and he
spent the last of it in July. [Mrs Warren's face falls].
CROFTS [watching her] There! I told you. [He resumes his place
on the settle and puts his legs on the seat again, as if the
matter were finally disposed of].
FRANK [plaintively] This is ever so mercenary. Do you suppose
Miss Warren's going to marry for money? If we love one another--
MRS WARREN. Thank you. Your love's a pretty cheap commodity, my
lad. If you have no means of keeping a wife, that settles it;
you cant have Vivie.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: tangled creepers, looked down at the growing young life at their
feet with the sombre resignation of giants that had lost faith in
their strength. And in the midst of them the merciless creepers
clung to the big trunks in cable-like coils, leaped from tree to
tree, hung in thorny festoons from the lower boughs, and, sending
slender tendrils on high to seek out the smallest branches,
carried death to their victims in an exulting riot of silent
destruction.
On the fourth side, following the curve of the bank of that
branch of the Pantai that formed the only access to the clearing,
ran a black line of young trees, bushes, and thick second growth,
Almayer's Folly |
