| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: standing up high like walls and church spires, only
a hundred times bigger. The valleys are full of
boulders and black stones. There's not a blade of
grass to see; and the sun sets more red over that
country than I have seen it anywhere--blood-red
and angry. It IS fine."
"You do not want to go back there again?"
she stammered out.
He laughed a little. "No. That's the blamed
gold country. It gave me the shivers sometimes
to look at it--and we were a big lot of men together,
To-morrow |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: Now the Boers gave way, and Marais, seeing himself in a minority,
glowered at me in silence.
"Ask these white people, O Macumazahn," said Kambula, "who is their
captain, for to the captain I would speak."
I translated the question, and Marais answered:
"I am."
"No," broke in Vrouw Prinsloo, "_I_ am. Tell them, Allan, that these
men are all fools and have given the rule to me, a woman."
So I told them. Evidently this information surprised them a little, for
they discussed together. Then Kambula said:
"So be it. We have heard that the people of George are now ruled by a
Marie |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: Here, also, the handiwork of man lay ruined: but the plants
were all alive and thriving; the view below was fresh with
the colours of nature; and we had exchanged a dim, human
garret for a corner, even although it were untidy, of the
blue hall of heaven. Not a bird, not a beast, not a reptile.
There was no noise in that part of the world, save when we
passed beside the staging, and heard the water musically
falling in the shaft.
We wandered to and fro. We searched among that drift of
lumber-wood and iron, nails and rails, and sleepers and the
wheels of tracks. We gazed up the cleft into the bosom of
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