| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: only resource! And he did not know where to lay his
hands on two hundred pence.
All that night Captain Whalley walked the poop of
his anchored ship, as though he had been about to close
with the land in thick weather, and uncertain of his
position after a run of many gray days without a sight
of sun, moon, or stars. The black night twinkled with
the guiding lights of seamen and the steady straight
lines of lights on shore; and all around the Fair Maid
the riding lights of ships cast trembling trails upon the
water of the roadstead. Captain Whalley saw not a
End of the Tether |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: He had been a leader, a founder of new enterprises, a pillar of
Church and State, a prince of the House of Israel. Ten talents
had been
given him, and he had made them twenty. His reward would be
proportionate.
He was glad that his companions were going to find fit dwellings
prepared for them; but he thought also with a certain pleasure of
the surprise that some of them would feel when they saw
his appointed mansion.
So they came to the summit of the moorland and looked over into
the world beyond. It was a vast, green plain, softly rounded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: appeared. Then fugitives arrived with the tale of the rout, and the
Punic army halted. This catastrophe, falling upon them as it did in
the midst of their victory, stupefied them. Hamilcar's orders were no
longer listened to.
Matho took advantage of this to continue his ravages among the
Numidians.
Hanno's camp having been overthrown, he had returned against them. The
elephants came out; but the Mercenaries advanced through the plain
shaking about flaming firebrands, which they had plucked from the
walls, and the great beasts, in fright, ran headlong into the gulf,
where they killed one another in their struggles, or were drowned
Salammbo |
