| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: you know, I am not like Wright--I have no business."
He walked with the ladies to the door of their lodging.
Angela kept always in front. She stood there, however,
at the little confectioner's window until the others came up.
She let her mother pass in, and then she said to Bernard,
looking at him--
"Shall I see you again?"
"Some time, I hope."
"I mean--are you going away?"
Bernard looked for a moment at a little pink sugar cherub--
a species of Cupid, with a gilded bow--which figured among
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: and his steward, too, had been with him devil knows how long--
seventeen years or more--a dogmatic sort of loafer who hated
me like poison, just because I was the chief mate. No chief
mate ever made more than one voyage in the Sephora, you know.
Those two old chaps ran the ship. Devil only knows what the skipper
wasn't afraid of (all his nerve went to pieces altogether
in that hellish spell of bad weather we had)--of what the law
would do to him--of his wife, perhaps. Oh, yes! she's on board.
Though I don't think she would have meddled. She would have
been only too glad to have me out of the ship in any way.
The `brand of Cain' business, don't you see. That's all right.
The Secret Sharer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: THE BEEFEATER. Not all, sir. Decent bodies, many of them.
THE MAN. _[intolerantly]_ No. All false. All. If thou deny it,
thou liest.
THE BEEFEATER. You judge too much by the Court, sir. There, indeed,
you may say of frailty that its name is woman.
THE MAN. _[pulling out his tablets again]_ Prithee say that again:
that about frailty: the strain of music.
THE BEEFEATER. What strain of music, sir? I'm no musician, God
knows.
THE MAN. There is music in your soul: many of your degree have it
very notably. _[Writing]_ "Frailty: thy name is woman!"
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