| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: will remain. Refuse them what they are pleased to call satisfaction,
and all will be well." Andre-Louis smiled and sighed. "It requires
courage," said the hypocrite.
"Of course it does. But you would appear to have plenty."
"Hardly enough, perhaps. But I shall do my best."
They had come through the vestibule, and although this was lined
with eager Blacks waiting for the young man who had insulted them
so flagrantly from the rostrum, Andre-Louis' body-guard had
prevented any of them from reaching him.
Emerging now into the open, under the great awning at the head of
the Carriere, erected to enable carriages to reach the door under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: It is a living way,
As the Christians say.
Not many there be
Who enter therein,
Only the guests of the
Irishman Quin.
What is it, what is it
But a direction out there,
And the bare possibility
Of going somewhere?
Great guide-boards of stone,
Walking |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: eldest warred against the decay of manners in the village
children, and executed frontal attacks upon the village mothers
for the conquest of curtseys. It sounds futile, but it was
really a war for an idea. The second skirmished and scouted all
over the country; and it was that one who pushed a reconnaissance
right to my very table--I mean the one who wore stand-up collars.
She was really calling upon my wife in the soft spirit of
afternoon friendliness, but with her usual martial determination.
She marched into my room swinging her stick. . .but no--I mustn't
exaggerate. It is not my speciality. I am not a humoristic
writer. In all soberness, then, all I am certain of is that she
Some Reminiscences |
