| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: methinks, I would fain have some better evidence than thine own
word."
"That shall not be lacking, if blade and hilt be but true to me,"
answered Varney; and drawing his sword with the right hand, he
threw his cloak around his left, and attacked Tressilian with a
vigour which, for a moment, seemed to give him the advantage of
the combat. But this advantage lasted not long. Tressilian
added to a spirit determined on revenge a hand and eye admirably
well adapted to the use of the rapier; so that Varney, finding
himself hard pressed in his turn, endeavoured to avail himself of
his superior strength by closing with his adversary. For this
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: But I cannot deny that there was something com-
forting in his willingness. I made a suitable
reply, but pointed out to him that the only thing
that could really help us was wind--a fair wind.
He rolled his head impatiently on the pillow.
And it was not comforting in the least to hear him
begin to mutter crazily about the late captain, that
old man buried in latitude 8 d 20', right in our way
--ambushed at the entrance of the Gulf.
"Are you still thinking of your late captain, Mr.
Burns?" I said. "I imagine the dead feel no animos-
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: In the age of gold,
Free from winter's cold,
Youth and maiden bright,
To the holy light,
Naked in the sunny beams delight.
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
There, in rising day,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
