| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: Polar region would have made him the leader, the guide, the counsellor,
whose temper, neither sanguine nor despondent, surveys with equanimity
what is to be and faces it, came to his help again. R--
The lizard's eye flickered once more. The veins on his forehead bulged.
The geranium in the urn became startlingly visible and, displayed among
its leaves, he could see, without wishing it, that old, that obvious
distinction between the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady
goers of superhuman strength who, plodding and persevering, repeat the
whole alphabet in order, twenty-six letters in all, from start to finish;
on the other the gifted, the inspired who, miraculously, lump all the
letters together in one flash--the way of genius. He had not genius; he
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: twenty such?"
"I can't say but he did, Mr. Peter," said Tabitha, threading her
needle.
Tabitha well understood that Peter had reference to an immense
hoard of the precious metals, which was said to exist somewhere
in the cellar or walls, or under the floors, or in some concealed
closet, or other out-of-the-way nook of the house. This wealth,
according to tradition, had been accumulated by a former Peter
Goldthwaite, whose character seems to have borne a remarkable
similitude to that of the Peter of our story. Like him he was a
wild projector, seeking to heap up gold by the bushel and the
Twice Told Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "Oh, I understand, Dave, and had I been in your place I'd most
probably have done the same. But I have come--now."
"Then come a little bit farther, into the cabin and get something
to eat," he said genially, ignoring or missing the feminine
suggestion of appeal in her voice. "And you must be tired too.
Which way are you travelling? Up? Then you wintered in Dawson,
or came in on the last ice. Your camp?" He glanced at the
voyageurs circled about the fire in the open, and held back the
door for her to enter.
"I came up on the ice from Circle City last winter," he continued,
"and settled down here for a while. Am prospecting some on
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