| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: will have to use his own judgment as to the next steps, and as to
how far he may go in opposition to what has been done by the police
there."
"And then I may go back home?" asked Miss Graumann. "Go home with
the assurance that you will help my poor boy?"
"Yes, you may depend on us, Madam. Is there anything we can do for
you here? Are you alone in the city?"
"No, thank you. There is a friend here who will take care of me.
She will put me on the afternoon express back to G-."
"It is very likely that I will take that train myself," said Muller.
"If there is anything that you need on the journey, call on me."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "Well, -- your commission?"
"Shall I have it, or shall I not?"
"You shall have it."
"Ay, but when?"
"When you like."
"Where is it, then?"
"In my pocket."
"How -- in your pocket?"
"Yes."
And, with a smile, Malicorne drew from his pocket a letter,
upon which mademoiselle seized as a prey, and which she read
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: was all. Led on (he firmly believed it), fooled, deceived,
outraged, struck, mocked at. . . . Beak and claws! The two men, so
differently haunted by Freya of the Seven Isles, were not equally
matched.
In the intense stillness, as of sleep, which had fallen upon the
two vessels, in a world that itself seemed but a delicate dream, a
boat pulled by Javanese sailors crossing the dark lane of water
came alongside the brig. The white warrant officer in her, perhaps
the gunner, climbed aboard. He was a short man, with a rotund
stomach and a wheezy voice. His immovable fat face looked lifeless
in the moonlight, and he walked with his thick arms hanging away
'Twixt Land & Sea |
