| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "I am not sure that I understand--I am rather stupid.
But you see how right I am in my taste for such places as this.
I have to come here to hear such ingenious remarks."
"You should add that my coming, as well, has something to do with it."
"Everything!" said Miss Vivian.
"Everything? Does no one else make ingenious remarks?
Does n't my friend Wright?"
"Mr. Wright says excellent things, but I should not exactly call
them ingenious remarks."
"It is not what Wright says; it 's what he does. That 's the charm!"
said Bernard.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: and snapped my jaws in his face. When the bridge was finished he
went away. All the English hunt in that fashion, except when
they are hunted."
"Who hunts the white-faces?" yapped the Jackal excitedly.
"No one now, but I have hunted them in my time."
"I remember a little of that Hunting. I was young then," said
the Adjutant, clattering his beak significantly.
"I was well established here. My village was being builded for
the third time, as I remember, when my cousin, the Gavial,
brought me word of rich waters above Benares. At first I would
not go, for my cousin, who is a fish-eater, does not always know
The Second Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: little flirtation is over."
They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated,
like ghosts, even from our pity.
After a moment Tom got up and began wrapping the unopened bottle of
whiskey in the towel.
"Want any of this stuff? Jordan? . . . Nick?"
I didn't answer.
"Nick?" He asked again.
"What?"
"Want any?"
"No . . . I just remembered that to-day's my birthday."
The Great Gatsby |
