| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: audience. Francie bowed low, left the room, closed the door
behind him: and then turned him about in the passage-way, and
with a low voice, but a prodigious deal of sentiment,
repeated the name of the evil one twenty times over, to the
end of which, for the greater efficacy, he tacked on
'damnable' and 'hellish.' FAS EST AB HOSTE DOCERI -
disrespect is made more pungent by quotation; and there is no
doubt but he felt relieved, and went upstairs into his
tutor's chamber with a quiet mind. M'Brair sat by the cheek
of the peat-fire and shivered, for he had a quartan ague and
this was his day. The great night-cap and plaid, the dark
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: would do. Now, I do not think there are two other words that
should be printed. - By the way, there is an article of mine
called THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW in the CONTEMPORARY which you
might find room for somewhere; it is no' bad.
Very busy with all these affairs and some native ones also.
CHAPTER XL
VAILIMA, June 18th, 94.
MY DEAR COLVIN, - You are to please understand that my last
letter is withdrawn unconditionally. You and Baxter are
having all the trouble of this Edition, and I simply put
myself in your hands for you to do what you like with me, and
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: front. The friend scrambled after them. In front
of the colors the three men began to bawl:
"Come on! come on!" They danced and gy-
rated like tortured savages.
The flag, obedient to these appeals, bended its
glittering form and swept toward them. The
men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then
with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment
surged forward and began its new journey.
Over the field went the scurrying mass. It
was a handful of men splattered into the faces of
The Red Badge of Courage |
