| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: this sort of thing.... You know you're not saving--you're killing
me."
Towards the end it became evident our identity was discovered. I
found the press, and especially Boom's section of it, had made a
sort of hue and cry for us, sent special commissioners to hunt
for us, and though none of these emissaries reached us until my
uncle was dead, one felt the forewash of that storm of energy.
The thing got into the popular French press. People became
curious in their manner towards us, and a number of fresh faces
appeared about the weak little struggle that went on in the
closeness behind the curtains of the bed. The young doctor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: Presently, he thought, the two witches will be coming in, with
crutch and stick - horrible, grotesque, monstrous - affiliated to
the devil - to put a mark on his forehead, the tiny little bruise
of death. And he wouldn't be able to do anything. Tom had struck
out at something, but he was not like Tom. His limbs were dead
already. He sat still, dying the death over and over again; and
the only part of him which moved were his eyes, turning round and
round in their sockets, running over the walls, the floor, the
ceiling, again and again till suddenly they became motionless and
stony-starting out of his head fixed in the direction of the bed.
He had seen the heavy curtains stir and shake as if the dead body
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: distrustfully on the dusty console adorned with a Rogers
statuette.
Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he
deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched
antimacassar which scraped unpleasantly against the pink fold of
skin above his collar.
"My goodness--you can't go on living here!" he exclaimed.
Lily smiled at his tone. "I am not sure that I can; but I have
gone over my expenses very carefully, and I rather think I shall
be able to manage it."
"Be able to manage it? That's not what I mean--it's no place for
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