| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: and nothing below the waist but the 'thwart-ship
white lines of the bridge-screens, that lead the eye
to the sharp white lines of the bows cleaving the
muddy water of the river.
Separated from his boat to me at least he seemed
incomplete. The tug herself without his head and
torso on the bridge looked mutilated as it were.
But he left her very seldom. All the time I re-
mained in harbour I saw him only twice on shore.
On the first occasion it was at my charterers, where
he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: girl who was running across the playground to where three ladies
were standing.
The little girl caught the dress of one of the ladies, and came
pulling at her dress and bringing her across the ground to see the
stone chimney, and the little girl kept saying:
``Look, Mama! See, Mama! Isn't it a grand chimney? Won't it 'most
hold smoke?''
Bessie Bell stood still with her little hands--they were beginning
to be round pink little hands again, now--clasped in front of her
and wondered.
``See, Mama! Look, Mama!'' cried the little girl.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: morning coat and a brilliant watch chain, approached Miss Miller,
looking sharply at her companion. "Oh, Eugenio!" said Miss
Miller with the friendliest accent.
Eugenio had looked at Winterbourne from head to foot;
he now bowed gravely to the young lady. "I have the honor
to inform mademoiselle that luncheon is upon the table."
Miss Miller slowly rose. "See here, Eugenio!" she said;
"I'm going to that old castle, anyway."
"To the Chateau de Chillon, mademoiselle?" the courier inquired.
"Mademoiselle has made arrangements?" he added in a tone which struck
Winterbourne as very impertinent.
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