| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: conduct who disapproved of Jacobus doing his own touting? It was
certainly undignified. I wondered how the merchant brother liked
it. But then different countries, different customs. In a
community so isolated and so exclusively "trading" social standards
have their own scale.
CHAPTER II
I would have gladly dispensed with the mournful opportunity of
becoming acquainted by sight with all my fellow-captains at once.
However I found my way to the cemetery. We made a considerable
group of bareheaded men in sombre garments. I noticed that those
of our company most approaching to the now obsolete sea-dog type
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: little blind God, who steals unawares on his victim, had marked her for his
own, and that all this sweet perplexity was the unconscious awakening of the
heart.
One afternoon, near the end of Betty's siege indoors, two of her friends,
Lydia Boggs and Alice Reynolds, called to see her.
Alice had bright blue eyes, and her nut brown hair hung in rebellious curls
around her demure and pretty face. An adorable dimple lay hidden in her rosy
cheek and flashed into light with her smiles.
"Betty, you are a lazy thing!" exclaimed Lydia. "Lying here all day long doing
nothing but gaze out of the window."
"Girls, I am glad you came over," said Betty. "I am blue. Perhaps you will
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: more than half the chamber when the figure stirred, and, as
I sprang, rose and faced me.
At first an expression of terror overspread the features of the woman
who confronted me--then startled incredulity-- hope--thanksgiving.
My heart pounded within my breast as I advanced toward
her--tears came to my eyes--and the words that would have
poured forth in a perfect torrent choked in my throat as I
opened my arms and took into them once more the woman
I loved--Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium.
CHAPTER XXII
VICTORY AND DEFEAT
The Gods of Mars |
