| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: notion of the arts in our old English Navy. Yet it was again as an
artist that the lad was taken for a run to Rio, and apparently for
a second outing in a ten-gun brig. These, and a cruise of six
weeks to windward of the island undertaken by the CONQUEROR herself
in quest of health, were the only breaks in three years of
murderous inaction; and at the end of that period Jenkin was
invalided home, having 'lost his health entirely.'
As he left the deck of the guard-ship the historic part of his
career came to an end. For forty-two years he continued to serve
his country obscurely on the seas, sometimes thanked for
inconspicuous and honourable services, but denied any opportunity
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: some aberration of sensibility, some perversion of taste. At least
I couldn't interpret otherwise the sudden flash that came into her
face. Such a manifestation, as the result of any word of mine,
embarrassed me; but while I was thinking how to reassure her the
flush passed away in a smile of exquisite good nature. "Oh you see
one forgets so wonderfully how one dislikes him!" she said; and if
her tone simply extinguished his strange figure with the brush of
its compassion, it also rings in my ear to-day as the purest of all
our praises. But with what quick response of fine pity such a
relegation of the man himself made me privately sigh "Ah poor
Saltram!" She instantly, with this, took the measure of all I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the beast in the man-dog talk with which you are
familiar, if you ever owned and loved a dog.
When he is well, I thought, he probably will turn upon
me and attempt to devour me, and against that even-
tuality I gathered together a pile of rocks and set to
work to fashion a stone-knife. We were bottled up at the
head of the fiord as completely as if we had been behind
prison bars. Before us spread the Sojar Az, and else-
where about us rose unscalable cliffs.
Fortunately a little rivulet trickled down the side of
the rocky wall, giving us ample supply of fresh water--
Pellucidar |
