| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: shootin' fer you, Betty, and even time I aimed I thought of you."
The lad rambled on, his voice growing weaker and weaker and finally ceasing.
The hand which had clasped Betty's so closely loosened its hold. His eyes
closed. Betty thought he was dead, but no! he still breathed. Suddenly his
eyes opened. The shadow of pain was gone. In its place shone a beautiful
radiance.
"Betty, I've cared a lot for you--and I'm dyin'--happy because I've fought fer
you--and somethin' tells me--you'll--be saved. Good-bye." A smile transformed
his face and his gray eyes gazed steadily into hers. Then his head fell back.
With a sigh his brave spirit fled.
Hugh Bennet looked once at the pale face of his son, then he ran down the
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: boards: I think nothing of that; but I have known in my own mind
sometimes, when I had not a clap from the whole house, that I had
found a true intonation, or an exact and speaking gesture; and
then, messieurs, I have known what pleasure was, what it was to do
a thing well, what it was to be an artist. And to know what art
is, is to have an interest for ever, such as no burgess can find in
his petty concerns. TENEZ, MESSIEURS, JE VAIS VOUS LE DIRE - it is
like a religion.'
Such, making some allowance for the tricks of memory and the
inaccuracies of translation, was the profession of faith of M. de
Vauversin. I have given him his own name, lest any other wanderer
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: "How do you account for this?" The Assistant Commissioner nodded
at the cloth rag lying before him on the table.
"I don't account for it at all, sir. It's simply unaccountable.
It can't be explained by what I know." The Chief Inspector made
those admissions with the frankness of a man whose reputation is
established as if on a rock. "At any rate not at this present
moment. I think that the man who had most to do with it will turn
out to be Michaelis."
"You do?"
"Yes, sir; because I can answer for all the others."
"What about that other man supposed to have escaped from the park?"
The Secret Agent |
