| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: to go. He would go at his time - only at his time: didn't he go
every night very much at the same hour? He took out his watch -
there was light for that: it was scarcely a quarter past one, and
he had never withdrawn so soon. He reached his lodgings for the
most part at two - with his walk of a quarter of an hour. He would
wait for the last quarter - he wouldn't stir till then; and he kept
his watch there with his eyes on it, reflecting while he held it
that this deliberate wait, a wait with an effort, which he
recognised, would serve perfectly for the attestation he desired to
make. It would prove his courage - unless indeed the latter might
most be proved by his budging at last from his place. What he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: A bitter blast swept across the square. The gas-lamps flickered
and became blue, and the leafless trees shook their black iron
branches to and fro. He shivered and went back, closing the window
behind him.
Having reached the door, he turned the key and opened it.
He did not even glance at the murdered man. He felt that
the secret of the whole thing was not to realize the situation.
The friend who had painted the fatal portrait to which
all his misery had been due had gone out of his life.
That was enough.
Then he remembered the lamp. It was a rather curious one of
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: "Too late! O senseless white men! He has escaped!"
CHAPTER XII.
"That is the place," said Dain, indicating with the blade of his
paddle a small islet about a mile ahead of the canoe--"that is
the place where Babalatchi promised that a boat from the prau
would come for me when the sun is overhead. We will wait for
that boat there."
Almayer, who was steering, nodded without speaking, and by a
slight sweep of his paddle laid the head of the canoe in the
required direction.
They were just leaving the southern outlet of the Pantai, which
Almayer's Folly |
