| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: sometimes (and this is her own expression) like a precious jewel in the
heavens. On such days, upon the sudden view of it, her hand would
tighten on the child's fingers, her voice rise like a song. "I TO THE
HILLS!" she would repeat. "And O, Erchie, are nae these like the hills
of Naphtali?" and her tears would flow.
Upon an impressionable child the effect of this continual and pretty
accompaniment to life was deep. The woman's quietism and piety passed
on to his different nature undiminished; but whereas in her it was a
native sentiment, in him it was only an implanted dogma. Nature and the
child's pugnacity at times revolted. A cad from the Potterrow once
struck him in the mouth; he struck back, the pair fought it out in the
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: the rudder was disabled. The "Bertha Millner" must bide where she
was.
"And a little more of this dancing," exclaimed Moran, "and we'll
have the planks springing off the stern-post."
Charlie nodded solemnly. He said nothing--his gravity had
returned. Now in the glare of the tropical day, with the "Bertha
Millner" sitting the sea as placidly as a brooding gull, he was
Talleyrand again.
"I tinkum yas," he said vaguely.
"Well, I think we had better try and fix the rudder and put back
to Frisco," said Moran. "You're making no money this way. There
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: published as a letter to Mr. Richard Taylor, in the 'Philosophical
Magazine' for December, 1847. After verifying, varying, and
expanding the results of Bancalari, he submitted to examination
heated air-currents, produced by platinum spirals placed in the
magnetic field, and raised to incandescence by electricity. He then
examined the magnetic deportment of gases generally. Almost all of
these gases are invisible; but he must, nevertheless, track them in
their unseen courses. He could not effect this by mingling smoke
with his gases, for the action of his magnet upon the smoke would
have troubled his conclusions. He, therefore, 'caught' his gases in
tubes, carried them out of the magnetic field, and made them reveal
|
