| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: elbows on his knees to prod with his stick at some unfortunate
insect in the grass; and looks cunningly at her. She turns away
impatiently.]
CROFTS. I'm a good deal older than you. Twenty-five years:
quarter of a century. I shant live for ever; and I'll take care
that you shall be well off when I'm gone.
VIVIE. I am proof against even that inducement, Sir George.
Dont you think youd better take your answer? There is not the
slightest chance of my altering it.
CROFTS [rising, after a final slash at a daisy, and coming nearer
to her] Well, no matter. I could tell you some things that would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: Say what I think of it, since I have found
Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
As often as I guess'd.
DUKE.
Be it his pleasure.
FIRST LORD.
But I am sure the younger of our nature,
That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
Come here for physic.
DUKE.
Welcome shall they be;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: his wife, and her trustees of course bought consols with it.
Enough to keep her comfortable. George Dunbar's half, as Cloete
feared from the first, did not prove sufficient to launch the
medicine well; other moneyed men stepped in, and these two had to
go out of that business, pretty nearly shorn of everything.
"I am curious," I said, "to learn what the motive force of this
tragic affair was - I mean the patent medicine. Do you know?"
He named it, and I whistled respectfully. Nothing less than
Parker's Lively Lumbago Pills. Enormous property! You know it;
all the world knows it. Every second man, at least, on this globe
of ours has tried it.
Within the Tides |
