| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: his feet, and, lying there on the soft grass, beneath the tall wind
- whispering planes and flowering AGNUS CASTUS, began to think of
the wonder of beauty, and grew silent with unaccustomed awe. In
those days the artist was free. From the river valley he took the
fine clay in his fingers, and with a little tool of wood or bone,
fashioned it into forms so exquisite that the people gave them to
the dead as their playthings, and we find them still in the dusty
tombs on the yellow hillside by Tanagra, with the faint gold and
the fading crimson still lingering about hair and lips and raiment.
On a wall of fresh plaster, stained with bright sandyx or mixed
with milk and saffron, he pictured one who trod with tired feet the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: give the Governor any peace. I know I can get
you out of this place."
Frank looked at her distrustfully, but he
gathered confidence from her face. "Alexan-
dra," he said earnestly, "if I git out-a here, I
not trouble dis country no more. I go back
where I come from; see my mother."
Alexandra tried to withdraw her hand, but
Frank held on to it nervously. He put out his
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: He threw himself back and waited grimly for the
curry. The half-closed jalousies darkened the room
pervaded by the smell of fresh whitewash: a swarm
of flies buzzed and settled in turns, and poor Mrs.
Schomberg's smile seemed to express the quintes-
sence of all the imbecility that had ever spoken, had
ever breathed, had ever been fed on infamous buffalo
meat within these bare walls. Schomberg did not
open his lips till he was ready to thrust therein a
spoonful of greasy rice. He rolled his eyes ridicu-
lously before he swallowed the hot stuff, and only
Falk |
