| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: ing a living. I only hope it makes him properly
wretched. He's like that in everything. He
would like to keep a decent table well enough.
But no--for the sake of a few cents. Can't do it.
It's too much for him. That's what I call being a
slave to it. But he's mean enough to kick up a row
when his nose gets tickled a bit. See that? That
just paints him. Miserly and envious. You can't
account for it any other way. Can you? I have
been studying him these three years."
He was anxious I should assent to his theory.
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: She also stretches them, but not assiduously, in the thickets of
evergreen oak, on the slopes with the scrubby greenswards, dear to
the Grasshoppers.
Her hunting-weapon is a large upright web, whose outer boundary,
which varies according to the disposition of the ground, is
fastened to the neighbouring branches by a number of moorings. The
structure is that adopted by the other weaving Spiders. Straight
threads radiate at equal intervals from a central point. Over this
framework runs a continuous spiral thread, forming chords, or
crossbars, from the centre to the circumference. It is
magnificently large and magnificently symmetrical.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: No one can know," she said, "no one"--
(While the quivering corpse swayed in the wind)--
"Lord Christ, no one can understand
Who never had a son!"
IN THE BAYOU
LAZY and slow, through the snags and trees
Move the sluggish currents, half asleep;
Around and between the cypress knees,
Like black, slow snakes the dark tides creep--
How deep is the bayou beneath the trees?
"Knee-deep,
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