| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: "Yes; disease," I admitted in a cheerful tone which seemed to shock him.
But my point was gained, because he had to raise his voice to give
me his tale. It is not worth while to record his version.
It was just over two months since all this had happened, and he had thought
so much about it that he seemed completely muddled as to its bearings,
but still immensely impressed.
"What would you think of such a thing happening on board your own ship?
I've had the Sephora for these fifteen years. I am a well-known shipmaster."
He was densely distressed--and perhaps I should have sympathized
with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision
from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my
The Secret Sharer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: feet in length that would have supported a bullock. I was about
to soar, when I remembered the car. I jumped down once more,
turned the key of the switch, and slipped it into my pocket. No
one could steal her now. The next second I had my foot in the
thong.
I sat on the coping, looking into the room. Broad and lofty it
was, its walls hung with a fair blue paper. A handsome tapestry,
looped up a little on one side, masked the tall double doors, and
in the far corner stood a great tiled stove for burning wood.
From the ceiling was hanging a basin of alabaster- an electric
fitting, really. The powerful light of its hidden lamps spread,
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: solid limestone strata. The streets are broad and of a
uniform height of twenty feet. At intervals tubes pierce
the roof of this underground city, and by means of lenses
and reflectors transmit the sunlight, softened and diffused,
to dispel what would otherwise be Cimmerian darkness.
In like manner air is introduced.
Perry and I were taken, with Ghak, to a large public building,
where one of the Sagoths who had formed our guard explained
to a Maharan official the circumstances surrounding our capture.
The method of communication between these two was remarkable
in that no spoken words were exchanged. They employed
At the Earth's Core |
