| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: his way to dine out - he added that he hadn't taken in that she was
so interesting. The next morning in the midst of his work he quite
suddenly and irrelevantly reflected that his impression of her,
beginning so far back, was like a winding river that had at last
reached the sea.
His work in fact was blurred a little all that day by the sense of
what had now passed between them. It wasn't much, but it had just
made the difference. They had listened together to Beethoven and
Schumann; they had talked in the pauses, and at the end, when at
the door, to which they moved together, he had asked her if he
could help her in the matter of getting away. She had thanked him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: with the good Henri Quatre; and when talking of money matters
reckoned not in francs, like the common, godless herd of post-
Revolutionary Frenchmen, but in obsolete and forgotten ecus--ecus
of all money units in the world!--as though Louis Quatorze were
still promenading in royal splendour the gardens of Versailles,
and Monsieur de Colbert busy with the direction of maritime
affairs. You must admit that in a banker of the nineteenth
century it was a quaint idiosyncrasy. Luckily in the counting-
house (it occupied part of the ground floor of the Delestang town
residence, in a silent, shady street) the accounts were kept in
modern money, so that I never had any difficulty in making my
Some Reminiscences |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: the torrent. As he did so, an icy chill shot through his limbs;
he staggered, shrieked, and fell. The waters closed over his cry,
and the moaning of the river rose wildly into the night as it
gushed over
THE BLACK STONE
CHAPTER IV
HOW MR. SCHWARTZ SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION
TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED
THEREIN
Poor little Gluck waited very anxiously, alone in the house,
for Hans's return. Finding he did not come back, he was terribly
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