| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: the various celebrations as the acknowledged leaders of society.
And now, by a malign vicissitude of fortune, Moipu must sit in his
house quite unobserved; and his young men could but look in at the
door while their rivals feasted. Perhaps M. Grevy felt a touch of
bitterness towards his successor when he beheld him figure on the
broad stage of the centenary of eighty-nine; the visit of the CASCO
which Moipu had missed by so few years was a more unusual occasion
in Atuona than a centenary in France; and the dethroned chief
determined to reassert himself in the public eye.
Mr. Osbourne had gone into Atuona photographing; the population of
the village had gathered together for the occasion on the place
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.
In the palace of Mrs. Phlaccus, at Professor Channing-Cheetah’s
He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.
His laughter was submarine and profound
Like the old man of the seats
Hidden under coral islands
Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: refusal had caused me to think more soberly. And though I was now bent
upon becoming an author and leaving Nassau Street, I burned no bridges
behind me, but merely filled my spare hours with writing and with showing
it to Ethel."
"It was now that the second area of perturbation of my life came to me. I
say the second, because the first had been the recent dawning belief that
Ethel thought about me when I was not there to remind her of myself. This
idea had stirred --but you will understand. And now, what was my proper,
my honourable course? It was a positive relief that at this crisis she
went to Florida. I could think more quietly. My writing had come to be
quite often accepted, sometimes even solicited. Should I speak to her,
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