| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: him. "Vanish. Clear out."
"Where to?" snarled Mr Verloc. He raised his head, and gazing at
the closed door of the parlour, muttered feelingly: "I only wish
you would take me away to-night. I would go quietly."
"I daresay," assented sardonically the Chief Inspector, following
the direction of his glance.
The brow of Mr Verloc broke into slight moisture. He lowered his
husky voice confidentially before the unmoved Chief Inspector.
"The lad was half-witted, irresponsible. Any court would have seen
that at once. Only fit for the asylum. And that was the worst
that would've happened to him if - "
The Secret Agent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: dost I that I have not good example for from the barons,
and the King, and Holy Church. Murder, theft, rapine!
Passeth a day over England which sees not one or all
perpetrated in the name of some of these?
"Be it wicked for Norman of Torn to prey upon the
wolf, yet righteous for the wolf to tear the sheep? Me-
thinks not. Only do I collect from those who have more
than they need, from my natural enemies; while they
prey upon those who have naught.
"Yet," and his manner suddenly changed, "I do not
love it, Father. That thou know. I would that there
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Foe grapples foe, but dubious 'twixt the hosts
The war-god wavers; so let all be ranged
In equal rows symmetric, not alone
To feed an idle fancy with the view,
But since not otherwise will earth afford
Vigour to all alike, nor yet the boughs
Have power to stretch them into open space.
Shouldst haply of the furrow's depth inquire,
Even to a shallow trench I dare commit
The vine; but deeper in the ground is fixed
The tree that props it, aesculus in chief,
Georgics |
