| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: with so much mental fervour as to forget Schom-
berg's existence, till he grabbed my arm urgently.
"Well, you may think and think till every hair of
your head falls off, captain; but you can't explain
it in any other way."
For the sake of peace and quietness I admitted
hurriedly that I couldn't: persuaded that now he
would leave off. But the only result was to make
his moist face shine with the pride of cunning. He
removed his hand for a moment to scare a black
mass of flies off the sugar-basin and caught hold of
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: PSA 5:7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of
thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
PSA 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
make thy way straight before my face.
PSA 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with
their tongue.
PSA 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have
rebelled against thee.
PSA 5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: devil to pay then."
And Carlos Herrera, by a pantomimic gesture, showed the suicide of a
man throwing himself into the water; then he fixed on Lucien one of
those steady, piercing looks by which the will of a strong man is
injected, so to speak, into a weak one. This fascinating glare, which
relaxed all Lucien's fibres of resistance, revealed the existence not
merely of secrets of life and death between him and his adviser, but
also of feelings as far above ordinary feeling as the man himself was
above his vile position.
Carlos Herrera, a man at once ignoble and magnanimous, obscure and
famous, compelled to live out of the world from which the law had
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