| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: again, Mang, the Bat, came hawking between the trees, and hung
up above me. Said Mang, "The village of the Man-Pack, where they
cast out the Man-cub, hums like a hornet's nest."
"It was a big stone that I threw," chuckled Mowgli, who had often
amused himself by throwing ripe paw-paws into a hornet's
nest, and racing off to the nearest pool before the hornets
caught him.
"I asked of Mang what he had seen. He said that the Red Flower
blossomed at the gate of the village, and men sat about it
carrying guns. Now _I_ know, for I have good cause,"--Akela
looked down at the old dry scars on his flank and side,--"that
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: up in the middle of a mudflat for a tide mark. Did you ever hear
of anything more provoking - eh?"
"I wouldn't quarrel with the beggar," I observed casually, yet
disliking that piece of news strongly. "It isn't worth while."
"I quarrel?" cried Jasper. "I don't want to quarrel. I don't want
to hurt a single hair of his ugly head. My dear fellow, when I
think of Freya's twenty-first birthday, all the world's my friend,
Heemskirk included. It's a nasty, spiteful amusement, all the
same."
We parted rather hurriedly on the quay, each of us having his own
pressing business to attend to. I would have been very much cut up
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: amounted to 5,000 francs; then she left her house in Saint-Melaine,
and moved into a less pretentious one which had belonged to her
ancestors and stood back of the market-place. This house, with its
slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a narrow
street that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that
it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from
the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near
the window. Eight mahogany chairs stood in a row against the white
wainscoting. An old piano, standing beneath a barometer, was covered
with a pyramid of old books and boxes. On either side of the yellow
marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The
A Simple Soul |
