| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: always above reproach. However, Johnnie Gallegher is a cold little
bully if I ever saw one. Better watch him or you'll be having
trouble when the inspector comes around."
"You tend to your business and I'll tend to mine," she said
indignantly. "And I don't want to talk about convicts any more.
Everybody's been hateful about them. My gang is my own business--
And you haven't told me yet what you do in New Orleans. You go
there so often that everybody says--" She paused. She had not
intended to say so much.
"What do they say?"
"Well--that you have a sweetheart there. That you are going to get
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: shame veil the remorseless audacity in the eyes of that man
superior to all scruples and terrors.
"I would never have dared to bring him on board your balancelle,"
he once apologized to me. "But what am I to do? His mother is
dead, and my brother has gone into the bush."
In this way I learned that our Dominic had a brother. As to "going
into the bush," this only means that a man has done his duty
successfully in the pursuit of a hereditary vendetta. The feud
which had existed for ages between the families of Cervoni and
Brunaschi was so old that it seemed to have smouldered out at last.
One evening Pietro Brunaschi, after a laborious day amongst his
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: surprise.
"To subdue fear, desire and jealousy, is the aristocrat's personal
affair, it is his ritual and discipline, like a knight watching his
arms; but the destruction of division and prejudice and all their
forms and establishments, is his real task, that is the common work
of knighthood. It is a task to be done in a thousand ways; one man
working by persuasion, another by example, this one overthrowing
some crippling restraint upon the freedom of speech and the spread
of knowledge, and that preparing himself for a war that will shatter
a tyrannous presumption. Most imaginative literature, all
scientific investigation, all sound criticism, all good building,
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