| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: disgust, then glanced around the horizon--then again at the
helmsman and ordered curtly:
"Shift the helm back again. Don't you feel the air from aft? You
are like a dummy standing there."
The Malay revolved the spokes again with disdainful obedience,
and the red-faced man was moving forward grunting to himself,
when through the open skylight the hail "On deck there!" arrested
him short, attentive, and with a sudden change to amiability in
the expression of his face.
"Yes, sir," he said, bending his ear toward the opening. "What's
the matter up there?" asked a deep voice from below.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: thought Cap'n Bill said:
"If you don't mind, Trot, I can cut a slit in your
sunbonnet with my knife."
"Do," she replied. "The slit won't matter, 'cause I can
sew it up again afterward, when I am big."
So Cap'n Bill got out his knife, which was just as
small, in proportion, as he was, and after considerable
trouble managed to cut a long slit in the sunbonnet.
First he squeezed through the opening himself and
then helped Trot to get out.
When they stood on firm ground again their first act
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn."
Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars of ships that he
had tried to their utmost in many a spell of boisterous weather.
He had shown me what carrying on meant, but he was not a man to
learn discretion from. He could not help his deafness. One can
only remember his cheery temper, his admiration for the jokes in
PUNCH, his little oddities - like his strange passion for borrowing
looking-glasses, for instance. Each of our cabins had its own
looking-glass screwed to the bulkhead, and what he wanted with more
of them we never could fathom. He asked for the loan in
confidential tones. Why? Mystery. We made various surmises. No
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