| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: croquet, and the hollow strokes of the mallet sounded far
away among the woods: but with these exceptions, it was
sleep and sunshine and dust, and the wind in the pine trees,
all day long.
A little before stage time, that castle of indolence awoke.
The ostler threw his straw away and set to his preparations.
Mr. Jennings rubbed his eyes; happy Mr. Jennings, the
something he had been waiting for all day about to happen at
last! The boarders gathered in the verandah, silently giving
ear, and gazing down the road with shaded eyes. And as yet
there was no sign for the senses, not a sound, not a tremor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: get rid of a person one does not like. The sea does not give up its
dead as the earth does."
"You forget the whale, sir," said young Powell.
Mr. Smith gave a start. "Eh? What whale? Oh! Jonah. I wasn't
thinking of Jonah. I was thinking of this passage which seems so
quick to you. But only think what it is to me? It isn't a life,
going about the sea like this. And, for instance, if one were to
fall ill, there isn't a doctor to find out what's the matter with
one. It's worrying. It makes me anxious at times."
"Is Mrs. Anthony not feeling well?" asked Powell. But Mr. Smith's
remark was not meant for Mrs. Anthony. She was well. He himself
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Wiping all our tears away?
O no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!
He doth give His joy to all:
He becomes an infant small,
He becomes a man of woe,
He doth feel the sorrow too.
Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,
And thy Maker is not by:
Think not thou canst weep a tear,
And thy Maker is not near.
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
