| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: more or less doesn't matter.'
"This was sound talk, and the Chinaman owner could not but agree.
But if it hadn't been sound it would have been just the same.
Davidson did what he liked. He was a man that could do no wrong.
However, this suggestion of his was not merely a business matter.
There was in it a touch of Davidsonian kindness. For you must know
that the man could not have continued to live quietly up that creek
if it had not been for Davidson's willingness to call there from
time to time. And Davidson's Chinaman knew this perfectly well,
too. So he only smiled his dignified, bland smile, and said: 'All
right, Captain. You do what you like.'
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and
despair of a child who once could get anything she wanted by
sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her. She
burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at
the tufted counterpane.
"I might as well be dead!" she sobbed passionately. Before such
an exhibition of grief, Pittypat's easy tears ceased and Melly
flew to the bedside to comfort her sister-in-law.
"Dear, don't cry! Try to think how much Charlie loved you and let
that comfort you! Try to think of your darling baby."
Indignation at being misunderstood mingled with Scarlett's forlorn
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: what chance--which you may call Providence--inevitably overwhelming
such as we consider light women."
"I hope," said Madame de Vandenesse, "that we can be great in other
ways----"
"Oh, let the Comte de Vandenesse preach to us!" exclaimed Madame de
Serizy.
"With all the more reason because he has preached a great deal by
example," said the Baronne de Nucingen.
"On my honor!" said General de Montriveau, "in all the dramas--a word
you are very fond of," he said, looking at Blondet--"in which the
finger of God has been visible, the most frightful I ever knew was
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