| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: LORETTA. [Sweetly.] Is there anything you want, Alice?
NED. [Trying to be courteous.] Anything I can do?
ALICE HEMINGWAY. [Speaking quickly, and trying to withdraw.] No,
no. I only came to see if the mail had arrived.
LORETTA AND NED
[Speaking together.] No, it hasn't arrived.
LORETTA. [Suddenly moving toward door to right.] I am going to
see.
[NED looks at her reproachfully.]
[LORETTA looks back tantalisingly from doorway and disappears.]
[NED flings himself disgustedly into Morris chair.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: such as you, if your soul were enlightened, would envy on
your bended knees. It is the least defect of such a method
of portraiture that it makes the path easy for the devil's
advocate, and leaves for the misuse of the slanderer a
considerable field of truth. For the truth that is
suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The world, in your despite, may perhaps owe you something, if
your letter be the means of substituting once for all a
credible likeness for a wax abstraction. For, if that world
at all remember you, on the day when Damien of Molokai shall
be named Saint, it will be in virtue of one work: your letter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: death is not always swift. There are means, doubtless you who have
lived in Spain have heard of them,' and he arched his brows and
glared at me meaningly, 'by which a man may die and yet live for
many weeks. Now, loth as I am to do it, it seems that if your
memory still sleeps, I must find some such means to rouse it--
before you die.'
'I am in your power, general,' I answered. 'You call me traitor
again and again. I am no traitor. I am a subject of the King of
England, not of the King of Spain. I came hither following a
villain who has wrought me and mine bitter wrong, one of your
company named de Garcia or Sarceda. To find him and for other
Montezuma's Daughter |
