| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: "But do you think there's time yet to do anything?" I asked.
She had an impatient movement of her shoulders without detaching
herself from the back of the chair. Time! Of course? It was less
than forty-eight hours since she had followed him to London . . . I
am no great clerk at those matters but I murmured vaguely an
allusion to special licences. We couldn't tell what might have
happened to-day already. But she knew better, scornfully. Nothing
had happened.
"Nothing's likely to happen before next Friday week,--if then."
This was wonderfully precise. Then after a pause she added that she
should never forgive herself if some effort were not made, an
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: cut short his denial.
"You can trust Ursula to make herself clear on such occasions.
And it doesn't make any difference what you think. All that
matters is what she believes."
"Oh, come! I've got a word to say about that too, haven't I?"
Susy looked slowly and consideringly about the room. There was
nothing in it, absolutely nothing, to show that he had ever
possessed a spare dollar--or accepted a present.
"Not as far as I'm concerned," she finally pronounced.
"How do you mean? If I'm as free as air--?"
"I'm not."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: toward the raft, and the oarsman barely drew from under before it
fell. It struck the corner of the raft, which tipped perilously.
That appeared to have been a final effort, for there the
battle ended. The oarsman made quickly for the shore, paddling
with remarkable dexterity and swiftness, while the other stood
braced, holding firmly to the spear-thongs. Another minute and
they had leaped upon the ledge, drawing the raft after them, and,
by tugging together on the lines, had landed their victim of the
deep.
It appeared to be a large black fish of a shape I had never
before seen. But it claimed little of my attention; my eye was on
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