| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: He didn't know that Mrs. Travers was simply trying to recover the
full command of her faculties. His words had given her a terrible
shock. After managing to utter this defensive "croyez-vous" which
came out of her lips cold and faint as if in a last effort of
dying strength, she felt herself turn rigid and speechless. She
was thinking, stiff all over with emotion: "D'Alcacer has seen
it! How much more has he been able to see?" She didn't ask
herself that question in fear or shame but with a reckless
resignation. Out of that shock came a sensation of peace. A
glowing warmth passed through all her limbs. If d'Alcacer had
peered by that smoky light into her face he might have seen on
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: seemingly on mere guesses. "I believe," says Olivarez, "that all
was done well: but as I have said, in wounds in the head there are
strange labyrinths." So on the 7th they stand round the bed in
despair. Don Garcia de Toledo, the prince's faithful governor, is
sitting by him, worn out with sleepless nights, and trying to supply
to the poor boy that mother's tenderness which he has never known.
Alva, too, is there, stern, self-compressed, most terrible, and yet
most beautiful. He has a God on earth, and that is Philip his
master; and though he has borne much from Don Carlos already, and
will have to bear more, yet the wretched lad is to him as a son of
God, a second deity, who will by right divine succeed to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Draw away.
Light the fires
And close the door.
To the old homes,
To the loved shore,
The far-farers
Return no more.
HOME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU
COME, my little children, here are songs for you;
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.
You must learn to sing them very small and clear,
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