| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: I was ready enough to go off wandering on the face of the earth--
and that was price enough to pay for an Abel of that sort.
Anyhow, he wouldn't listen to me. 'This thing must take its course.
I represent the law here.' He was shaking like a leaf.
`So you won't?' `No!' 'Then I hope you will be able to sleep on that,'
I said, and turned my back on him. `I wonder that you can,'
cries he, and locks the door.
"Well after that, I couldn't. Not very well.
That was three weeks ago. We have had a slow passage
through the Java Sea; drifted about Carimata for ten days.
When we anchored here they thought, I suppose, it was all right.
The Secret Sharer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: that he does--through the nose---but they think very much more in
his mental dialect than the English do. They are independent and
wide awake, curious and full of personal interest. The wayside
mind in Inverness or Perth runs more to muscle and less to fat, has
more active vanity and less passive pride, is more inquisitive and
excitable and sympathetic--in short, to use a symbolist's
description, it is more apt to be red-headed--than in Surrey or
Somerset. Scotchmen ask more questions about America, but fewer
foolish ones. You will never hear them inquiring whether there is
any good bear-hunting in the neighbourhood of Boston, or whether
Shakespeare is much read in the States. They have a healthy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: learn everything.
"How..." she began her question but stopped short.
She felt that it was impossible to ask, or to answer, in words.
Natasha's face eyes would eyes would have to tell her all more clearly
and profoundly.
Natasha was gazing at her, but seemed afraid and in doubt whether to
say all she knew or not; she seemed to feel that before those luminous
eyes which penetrated into the very depths of her heart, it was
impossible not to tell the whole truth which she saw. And suddenly,
Natasha's lips twitched, ugly wrinkles gathered round her mouth, and
covering her face with her hands she burst into sobs.
War and Peace |
