| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: face, strange straining eyes, and meagre form, would perhaps have
understood the mixture of contemptuous pity, dread, and suspicion
with which he was regarded by his neighbours in Raveloe. Yet few
men could be more harmless than poor Marner. In his truthful simple
soul, not even the growing greed and worship of gold could beget any
vice directly injurious to others. The light of his faith quite put
out, and his affections made desolate, he had clung with all the
force of his nature to his work and his money; and like all objects
to which a man devotes himself, they had fashioned him into
correspondence with themselves. His loom, as he wrought in it
without ceasing, had in its turn wrought on him, and confirmed more
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: make sure before opening fire that the others had gone to work.
Not hearing the sounds he expected to hear, he felt uncertain
whether they all were on board yet.
"While he listened, the Frenchman, whose immobility might have but
cloaked an internal struggle; moved forward a pace, then another.
Davidson, entranced, watched him advance one leg, withdraw his
right stump, the armed one, out of his pocket, and swinging his
body to put greater force into the blow, bring the seven-pound
weight down on the hammock where the head of the sleeper ought to
have been.
"Davidson admitted to me that his hair stirred at the roots then.
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: for the privilege. And all his venturing and fighting had now
but
one motive. Some day, as he confided to Hegan, when he'd made a
sufficient stake, he was going back to New York and knock the
spots
out of Messrs. Dowsett, Letton, and Guggenhammer. He'd
show them what an all-around general buzz-saw he was and what a
mistake they'd made ever to monkey with him. But he never lost
his head, and he knew that he was not yet strong enough to go
into death-grapples with those three early enemies. In the
meantime the black marks against them remained for a future
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