| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: services to the dead, the desolation of that life and the atrocious
wretchedness of its end cried aloud to his compassion, whispered to
him in tones of self-reproach.
"He ought to have handled the warning she had given him in another
way. He was convinced now that a simple display of watchfulness
would have been enough to restrain that vile and cowardly crew.
But the fact was that he had not quite believed that anything would
be attempted.
"The body of Laughing Anne having been 'committed to the deep' some
twenty miles S.S.W. from Cape Selatan, the task before Davidson was
to commit Laughing Anne's child to the care of his wife. And there
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Weare your eyes, thus: not Iealious, nor Secure:
I would not haue your free, and Noble Nature,
Out of selfe-Bounty, be abus'd: Looke too't:
I know our Country disposition well:
In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes
They dare not shew their Husbands.
Their best Conscience,
Is not to leaue't vndone, but kept vnknowne
Oth. Dost thou say so?
Iago. She did deceiue her Father, marrying you,
And when she seem'd to shake, and feare your lookes,
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: seeming avenue of escape, and at last, with a muttered oath,
he straightened up and throwing back his shoulders in a ges-
ture of defiance, he walked slowly and deliberately down the
center of the courtyard. One of the prowling lions turned
from the side wall and moved toward the center directly in
the man's path, but Smith-Oldwick was committed to what he
considered his one chance, for even temporary safety, and so
he kept on, ignoring the presence of the beast. The lion
slouched to his side and sniffed him and then, growling, he
bared his teeth.
Smith-Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has
Tarzan the Untamed |
