| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: sheet of fire facing me, was a terrifying sight, and the
heat seemed hardly bearable at first. On a settee cushion
dragged out of the cabin, Captain Beard, with his legs
drawn up and one arm under his head, slept with the light
playing on him. Do you know what the rest were busy
about? They were sitting on deck right aft, round an
open case, eating bread and cheese and drinking bottled
stout.
"On the background of flames twisting in fierce tongues
above their heads they seemed at home like salamanders,
and looked like a band of desperate pirates. The fire
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: "What is the matter? You've turned pale!"
"Daughter, a glass of water! quick!" cried Madame Vervelle. The
painter took pere Vervelle by the button of his coat and led him to a
corner on pretence of looking at a Murillo. Spanish pictures were then
the rage.
"You bought your pictures from Elie Magus?"
"Yes, all originals."
"Between ourselves, tell me what he made you pay for those I shall
point out to you."
Together they walked round the gallery. The guests were amazed at the
gravity in which the artist proceeded, in company with the host, to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the beam at two hundred twelve pounds, not an ounce of which was
superfluous flesh. Temperamentally, he was frank, imperious,
free-hearted, what men call a prince. He wore a loose tailor-made
suit of brown stuff and a broad-brimmed light-gray Stetson. For
the rest, you may see a hundred like him at the yearly stock
convention held in Denver, but you will never meet a man even
among them with a sounder heart or better disposition.
"I've got a story to tell you, Lieutenant O'Connor," he began.
"I've been meaning to see you and tell it ever since you made
good in that Fernendez matter. It wasn't your gameness. Anybody
can be game. But it looked to me like you were using the brains
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