| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: finally, and it is adding romance to romance, I think . . . I think
I do love you, Dave--oh, Dave!"
The last was a sighing dove-cry as he caught her up in his arms and
pressed her to him.
"But I don't love you because you played the fool to-day," she
whispered on his shoulder. "White men shouldn't go around killing
each other."
"Then why do you love me?" he questioned, enthralled after the
manner of all lovers in the everlasting query that for ever has
remained unanswered.
"I don't know--just because I do, I guess. And that's all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: soles of his hands and feet and beneath his eyes. He
was frightfully ugly, his ferocious grinning mouth and
huge down-hanging under-lip being but in harmony with
his terrible eyes.
This was Red-Eye. And right gingerly he crept out or
his cave and descended to the ground. Ignoring me, he
proceeded to reconnoitre. He bent forward from the
hips as he walked; and so far forward did he bend, and
so long were his arms, that with every step he touched
the knuckles of his hands to the ground on either side
of him. He was awkward in the semi-erect position of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: am informed that very early that morning two
brothers, who went down to look after their cobble
hauled up on the beach, found, a good way from
Brenzett, an ordinary ship's hencoop lying high
and dry on the shore, with eleven drowned ducks
inside. Their families ate the birds, and the hen-
coop was split into firewood with a hatchet. It is
possible that a man (supposing he happened to be
on deck at the time of the accident) might have
floated ashore on that hencoop. He might. I ad-
mit it is improbable, but there was the man--and
Amy Foster |
