| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: me just three years to earn the money that bought it."
"I thought you inherited your money."
"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in
the big panic--the panic of the war."
I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what
business he was in he answered, "That's my affair," before he realized
that it wasn't the appropriate reply.
"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the
drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either
one now." He looked at me with more attention. "Do you mean you've been
thinking over what I proposed the other night?"
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire,
Thou knowest Who hast made the Clay!
One stone the more swings to her place
In that dread Temple of Thy Worth --
It is enough that through Thy grace
I saw naught common on Thy earth.
Take not that vision from my ken;
Oh whatsoe'er may spoil or speed,
Help me to need no aid from men
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: from the carriage-way, to which I had my back. We had not been
there for ten minutes when my friend took off his hat, and I
glanced round and saw the lady I had been following all day.
'Who is that?' I said, and his answer was 'Mrs. Beaumont; lives
in Ashley Street.' Of course there could be no doubt after
that. I don't know whether she saw me, but I don't think she
did. I went home at once, and, on consideration, I thought that
I had a sufficiently good case with which to go to Clarke."
"Why to Clarke?"
"Because I am sure that Clarke is in possession of
facts about this woman, facts of which I know nothing."
The Great God Pan |
