| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: for Mr. Mudge. It was because HE was different that, in the oddest
way, she liked as well as deplored him; which was after all a proof
that the disparity, should they frankly recognise it, wouldn't
necessarily be fatal. She felt that, oleaginous--too oleaginous--
as he was, he was somehow comparatively primitive: she had once,
during the portion of his time at Cocker's that had overlapped her
own, seen him collar a drunken soldier, a big violent man who,
having come in with a mate to get a postal-order cashed, had made a
grab at the money before his friend could reach it and had so
determined, among the hams and cheeses and the lodgers from
Thrupp's, immediate and alarming reprisals, a scene of scandal and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: into the cottage leaving me on the road--astounded.
A couple of hours afterwards I returned to the cottage for chess as
usual. I saw neither the girl nor Mrs. Fyne then. We had our two
games and on parting I warned Fyne that I was called to town on
business and might be away for some time. He regretted it very
much. His brother-in-law was expected next day but he didn't know
whether he was a chess-player. Captain Anthony ("the son of the
poet--you know") was of a retiring disposition, shy with strangers,
unused to society and very much devoted to his calling, Fyne
explained. All the time they had been married he could be induced
only once before to come and stay with them for a few days. He had
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: scholars consulted him, and he was able to decipher the vestiges of
the oldest known books of Scripture, namely: 'The Wars of Jehovah' and
'The Enunciations,' spoken of by Moses (Numbers xxi. 14, 15, 27-30),
also by Joshua, Jeremiah, and Samuel,--'The Wars of Jehovah' being the
historical part and 'The Enunciations' the prophetical part of the
Mosaical Books anterior to Genesis. Swedenborg even affirms that 'the
Book of Jasher,' the Book of the Righteous, mentioned by Joshua, was
in existence in Eastern Tartary, together with the doctrine of
Correspondences. A Frenchman has lately, so they tell me, justified
these statements of Swedenborg, by the discovery at Bagdad of several
portions of the Bible hitherto unknown to Europe. During the
Seraphita |
