| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: towards some black object that had been stranded by the waves
on the beach near the enclosure. I knew what that object was,
but I had not the heart to go back and drive them off.
I began walking along the beach in the opposite direction,
designing to come round the eastward corner of the island and so
approach the ravine of the huts, without traversing the possible
ambuscades of the thickets.
Perhaps half a mile along the beach I became aware of one of my three
Beast Folk advancing out of the landward bushes towards me. I was now
so nervous with my own imaginings that I immediately drew my revolver.
Even the propitiatory gestures of the creature failed to disarm me.
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: but outranking either. She had tied on a white apron. She bore
the silver tray with an ease which bespoke either nerve or muscle
in her lace-draped arms.
She poured the tea, holding the silver pot high and letting the
amber fluid trickle slowly, and the pearls and diamonds on her
thin hands shone dully. Sophia passed little china plates and
fringed napkins, and Anna a silver basket with golden squares of
sponge-cake.
The ladies ate and drank, and the blue and white bundle on the
sofa remained motionless. Eudora, after she had finished her
tea, leaned back gracefully in her chair, and her dark eyes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: glance to the dying man. Again it seemed to him that he was
pacing the quarter-deck of a deserted ship. The mulatto steward,
watching through the crack of the pantry door, saw the Captain
stagger into the cuddy and fling-to the door behind him with a
crash. For more than an hour nobody approached that closed door
till Carter coming down the companion stairs spoke without
attempting to open it.
"Are you there, sir?" The answer, "You may come in," comforted
the young man by its strong resonance. He went in.
"Well?"
"Jaffir is dead. This moment. I thought you would want to know."
The Rescue |
