| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: a few door from a big white church, or somethink of the kind, not long built.
It was a dusty old 'ouse, too, though nothin' to the dustiness of the 'ouse
we tooked the bloomin' boxes from."
"How did you get in if both houses were empty?"
"There was the old party what engaged me a waitin' in the 'ouse at Purfleet.
He 'elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray. Curse me,
but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an' him a old feller,
with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he couldn't
throw a shadder."
How this phrase thrilled through me!
"Why, 'e took up 'is end o' the boxes like they was pounds of tea,
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: said, as she gave it to Antipas, would make the lictors turn pale and
silence all accusing voices.
Antipas, filled with gratitude, asked her how the medallion had come
into her possession.
"It was given to me," was her only answer.
At that moment Antipas beheld a bare arm slipping through a portiere
hanging in front of him. It was the arm of a youthful woman, as
graceful in outline as if carved from ivory by Polyclitus. With a
movement a little awkward and at the same time charming, it felt about
the wall an instant, as if seeking something, then took down a tunic
hanging upon a hook near the doorway, and disappeared.
Herodias |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: It is true masters of families were bound by the order to give notice
to the examiner of the place wherein he lived, within two hours after
he should discover it, of any person being sick in his house (that is to
say, having signs of the infection)- but they found so many ways to
evade this and excuse their negligence that they seldom gave that
notice till they had taken measures to have every one escape out of the
house who had a mind to escape, whether they were sick or sound;
and while this was so, it is easy to see that the shutting up of houses
was no way to be depended upon as a sufficient method for putting a
stop to the infection because, as I have said elsewhere, many of those
that so went out of those infected houses had the plague really upon
A Journal of the Plague Year |
