| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: foresighted in practical affairs, no vision of consequences would
restrain him. Yes. The Fynes were excellent people, but Mrs. Fyne
wasn't the daughter of a domestic tyrant for nothing. There were no
limits to her revolt. But they were excellent people. It was clear
that they must have been extremely good to that girl whose position
in the world seemed somewhat difficult, with her face of a victim,
her obvious lack of resignation and the bizarre status of orphan "to
a certain extent."
Such were my thoughts, but in truth I soon ceased to trouble about
all these people. I found that my lamp had gone out leaving behind
an awful smell. I fled from it up the stairs and went to bed in the
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: Whately have the simplicity of children, with an immense deal of
knowledge, which they impart in the most pleasant way. Saturday,
the 24th, we were to leave town for our first country excursion. We
were invited by Dr. Hawtrey, the Head Master of Eton, to be present
at the ceremonies accompanying the annual election of such boys on
the Foundation as are selected to go up to King's College,
Cambridge, where they are also placed on a Foundation. From reading
Dr. Arnold's life you will have learned that the head master of one
of these very great schools is no unimportant personage. Dr.
Hawtrey has an income of six or seven thousand pounds. He is
unmarried, but has two single sisters who live with him, and his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: HONNEUR-LE. -
The Count smiled at the singularity of the introduction; and seeing
I look'd a little pale and sickly, insisted upon my taking an arm-
chair; so I sat down; and to save him conjectures upon a visit so
out of all rule, I told him simply of the incident in the
bookseller's shop, and how that had impelled me rather to go to him
with the story of a little embarrassment I was under, than to any
other man in France. - And what is your embarrassment? let me hear
it, said the Count. So I told him the story just as I have told it
the reader.
- And the master of my hotel, said I, as I concluded it, will needs
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