| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: serve me, as well on account of my birth as my inexperience. I
ventured to bespeak his attentions in favour of Manon, and I
dwelt upon her gentle and excellent disposition. He replied,
with a smile, that he had not yet seen her, but that she had been
represented to him as a most dangerous person. This expression
so excited my sympathy, that I urged a thousand anxious arguments
in favour of my poor mistress, and I could not restrain even from
shedding tears.
He desired them to conduct me back to my chamber. `Love! love!'
cried this grave magistrate as I went out, `thou art never to be
reconciled with discretion!'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: bridge; and quite low by his side, as you see a small
child looking over the edge of a table, the battered soft
hat and the brown face of the Serang peeped over the
white canvas screen of the rail.
No doubt the Malay was standing back, nearer to the
wheel; but the great disparity of size in close associa-
tion amused Sterne like the observation of a bizarre fact
in nature. They were as queer fish out of the sea as
any in it.
He saw Captain Whalley turn his head quickly to
speak to his Serang; the wind whipped the whole white
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: wondering, 'Why's she so long?' And now just see what it is.
Well, our guessing was no use. The Lord willed otherwise," she
went on in musical tones.
"Is it possible? Have they sentenced you?" asked Theodosia, with
concern, looking at Maslova with her bright blue, child-like
eyes; and her merry young face changed as if she were going to
cry.
Maslova did not answer, but went on to her place, the second from
the end, and sat down beside Korableva.
"Have you eaten anything?" said Theodosia, rising and coming up
to Maslova.
Resurrection |
