| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: of the question from every point of view: my brother, whose
recovery gave us both plenty to do, was ill for three months,
during which I never left him and at the end of which we had to
face the absolute prohibition of a return to England. The
consideration of climate imposed itself, and he was in no state to
meet it alone. I took him to Meran and there spent the summer with
him, trying to show him by example how to get back to work and
nursing a rage of another sort that I tried NOT to show him.
The whole business proved the first of a series of phenomena so
strangely interlaced that, taken together - which was how I had to
take them - they form as good an illustration as I can recall of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: I looked at him in surprise. He was waiting for
my answer with an air of anxiety.
"You don't mean to leave the ship!" I cried
out.
"I do really, sir. I want to go and be quiet some-
where. Anywhere. The hospital will do."
"But, Ransome," I said. "I hate the idea of
parting with you."
"I must go," he broke in. "I have a right!"
. . . He gasped and a look of almost savage de-
termination passed over his face. For an instant
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: because they wanted to build a railroad switch there to give
access to a loading-out station of the mill.
"I suppose," their representative told me, "that since this
would be a favor to the mill, and you were opposed by the mill
owners, you will hand it to us in this matter."
"Why should I?" I asked. "Don't you think you ought to have
this alley?"
"Certainly we do, or we wouldn't have asked for it."
"Do you think the city needs the alley worse than you do?"
"No. It is an alley only on paper. There are no residences
there and nobody needs the alley but us."
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