| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: but whether they did or not, nobody seemed particularly to care.
They were just flung out there, and on we went.
Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved;
but we passed various places--trading places--with names
like Gran' Bassam, Little Popo; names that seemed to belong
to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister back-cloth.
The idleness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men
with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and languid sea,
the uniform sombreness of the coast, seemed to keep me away
from the truth of things, within the toil of a mournful
and senseless delusion. The voice of the surf heard now and
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: that joyous, innocent bevy could be compared with you for charm or
daring? How your dark eyes sparkled, and how the long brown
ringlets tossed around your small head, when you stood up that
evening, slim and straight, and taller by half a head than your
companions, in the lamp-lit room where the children were playing
forfeits, and said, "There is not one boy here that DARES to kiss
ME!" Then you ran out on the dark porch, where the honeysuckle
vines grew up the tall, inane Corinthian pillars.
Did you blame the boy for following? And were you very angry,
indeed, about what happened,--until you broke out laughing at his
cravat, which had slipped around behind his ear? That was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: it ter me, Miss Scnrlett? Dat watch belong by rights ter lil Wade
Hampton."
"It belongs to you. What did Wade Hampton ever do for Pa? Did he
look after him when he was sick and feeble? Did he bathe him and
dress him and shave him? Did he stick by him when the Yankees
came? Did he steal for him? Don't be a fool, Pork. If ever
anyone deserved a watch, you do, and I know Pa would approve.
Here."
She picked up the black hand and laid the watch in the palm. Pork
gazed at it reverently and slowly delight spread over his face.
"Fer me, truly, Miss Scarlett?"
Gone With the Wind |
