| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: captain of the steamer, could be made very useful--very likely
even would join in the business, smuggling the powder in the
steamer without Abdulla's knowledge. There again Dain met in
Almayer with unexpected resistance; Lakamba had to send
Babalatchi over with the solemn promise that his eyes would be
shut in friendship for the white man, Dain paying for the promise
and the friendship in good silver guilders of the hated Orang
Blanda. Almayer, at last consenting, said the powder would be
obtained, but Dain must trust him with dollars to send to
Singapore in payment for it. He would induce Ford to buy and
smuggle it in the steamer on board the brig. He did not want any
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "We shall see," remarked the countess.
"If it is best for his own happiness, I sha'n't hesitate to ask him to
leave her. Constantin says that since Paz has been with her he, sober
as he is, has sometimes come home quite excited. If he takes to
intoxication I shall be just as grieved as if he were my own son."
"Don't tell me anything more about it," cried the countess, with a
gesture of disgust.
Two days later the captain perceived in the manner, the tones of
voice, but, above all, in the eyes of the countess, the terrible
results of Adam's confidences. Contempt had opened a gulf between the
beloved woman and himself. He was suddenly plunged into the deepest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: merely ran into some hard substance which barred my way.
In order to make sure of this, let me try another place."
She ran back a way and then with much caution
advanced in a different place, but when she reached a
position on a line with the others she halted, her arms
outstretched before her.
"I can feel something hard - something smooth as
glass," she said, "but I'm sure it is not glass."
"Let me try," suggested Woot, getting up; but when he
tried to go forward, he discovered the same barrier
that Polychrome had encountered.
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
