| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: star above your vessel. We shall see and understand. And don't
send the boat till there is less lightning: a boat is bigger than
a man in the water. Tell the rowers to pull for the palm-grove
and cease when an oar, thrust down with a strong arm, touches the
bottom. Very soon they will hear our hail; but if no one comes
they must go away before daylight. A chief may prefer death to
life, and we who are left are all of true heart. Do you
understand, O big man?"
"The chap has plenty of sense," muttered Lingard to himself, and
when they stood side by side on the deck, he said: " But there
may be enemies on the beach, O Jaffir, and they also may shout to
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: who had long wanted to be personally known to the family,
to have a nearer view of their characters and her own
difficulties, and to have an opportunity of endeavouring
to please them, had seldom been happier in her life,
than she was on receiving Mrs. John Dashwood's card.
On Elinor its effect was very different. She began
immediately to determine, that Edward who lived with
his mother, must be asked as his mother was, to a party
given by his sister; and to see him for the first time,
after all that passed, in the company of Lucy!--she hardly
knew how she could bear it!
Sense and Sensibility |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: away; but on the threshold he paused, his screwed-up eyes fixed
on her wistfully.
The look moved her, and she added hurriedly: "The only reason I
can find is one for not marrying you. It's because I can't yet
feel unmarried enough."
"Unmarried enough? But I thought Nick was doing his best to
make you feel that."
"Yes. But even when he has--sometimes I think even that won't
make any difference."
He still scrutinized her hesitatingly, with the gravest eyes she
had ever seen in his careless face.
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