| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: whom, next to Drake and Grenville, he most admired on earth.
But Don Guzman, on the other hand, seemed to have an instinct that
that book might be a fatal gift to his captor; for one day ere
Amyas had looked into it, he began questioning the Don about El
Dorado. Whereon Don Guzman replied with one of those smiles of
his, which (as Amyas said afterwards) was so abominably like a
sneer, that he had often hard work to keep his hands off the man--
"Ah! You have been eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge,
senor? Well; if you have any ambition to follow many another brave
captain to the pit, I know no shorter or easier path than is
contained in that little book."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: I call it time, but how long was it? I can't speak
to the purpose today of the duration of these things.
That kind of measure must have left me: they couldn't
have lasted as they actually appeared to me to last.
The terrace and the whole place, the lawn and the garden beyond it,
all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.
There were shrubberies and big trees, but I remember
the clear assurance I felt that none of them concealed him.
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
I got hold of this; then, instinctively, instead of returning
as I had come, went to the window. It was confusedly present
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: it," he thought, with a look at the old servant, whose presence
made the wish to repeat his decision to his sister even stronger.
"You mean my intention to marry Katusha? Well, you see, I made up
my mind to do it, but she refuses definitely and firmly," he
said, and his voice shook, as it always did when he spoke of it.
"She does not wish to accept my sacrifice, but is herself
sacrificing what in her position means much, and I cannot accept
this sacrifice, if it is only a momentary impulse. And so I am
going with her, and shall be where she is, and shall try to
lighten her fate as much as I can."
Nathalie said nothing. Agraphena Petrovna looked at her with a
Resurrection |
