| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: of her decks was impressed indelibly on my brain,
to the very grain and knots of the planks. Yet, all
of a sudden, I fell clean over something, landing
full length on my hands and face.
It was something big and alive. Not a dog--
more like a sheep, rather. But there were no
animals in the ship. How could an animal. . . .
It was an added and fantastic horror which I could
not resist. The hair of my head stirred even as I
picked myself up, awfully scared; not as a man is
scared while his judgment, his reason still try to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: cowardly attempt to save his own character by casting upon the dead
woman's memory all the odium of a false accusation. With an entire
absence of logic, too, he was made responsible for the suicide
having taken place in Lady Sylvia's presence. She had broken off
the engagement the day after the catastrophe, and her family, a
clan powerful in the London world, furious at the mud through which
her name had been dragged, did all that they could to intensify the
feeling already existing against Jack.
"Not a voice was raised in his defense. He was advised to leave
the army; he was requested to withdraw from some of his clubs,
turned out of others, avoided by his fast acquaintances, cut by his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: not rather be one! It was unthinkable, and yet, strange to
relate, he realized an odd longing to be like Theriere, and Billy
Mallory; yes, in some respects like Divine, even. He wanted to
be more like the men that the woman he loved knew best.
"It's too late fer me ever to belong, now," he said ruefully.
"Yeh gotta be borned to it. Gee! Wouldn't I look funny
in wite pants, an' one o' dem dinky, little 'Willie-off-de-yacht'
lids?"
Even Barbara had to laugh at the picture the man's words
raised to her imagination.
"I didn't mean that," she hastened to explain. "I didn't
The Mucker |
