| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: of his banished son, now rushed forward, as if to
separate him from Rowena. But this had been
already accomplished by the marshals of the field,
who, guessing the cause of Ivanhoe's swoon,
had hastened to undo his armour, and found that
the head of a lance had penetrated his breastplate,
and inflicted a wound in his side.
CHAPTER XIII
``Heroes, approach!'' Atrides thus aloud,
``Stand forth distinguish'd from the circling crowd,
Ye who by skill or manly force may claim,
Ivanhoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: fragmentarily in the course of two or three years,
during which I seldom missed an opportunity of a
friendly chat with him. He told me this story of
his adventure with many flashes of white teeth and
lively glances of black eyes, at first in a sort of anx-
ious baby-talk, then, as he acquired the language,
with great fluency, but always with that singing,
soft, and at the same time vibrating intonation that
instilled a strangely penetrating power into the
sound of the most familiar English words, as if
they had been the words of an unearthly language.
Amy Foster |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: have been impossible on account of the heat were it not for the
numerous streams. On the slopes and in the bottoms were patches
of magnificent forest; on the crests was the jungle, and
occasionally an outlook over extended views. The birds and the
strange tropical big-leaved trees were a constant delight-exotic
and strange. Billy was in a heaven of joy, for her specialty in
Africa was plants, seeds and bulbs, for her California garden.
She had syces, gunbearers and tent boys all climbing, shaking
branches, and generally pawing about.
This idiosyncracy of Billy's puzzled our boys hugely. At first
they tried telling her that everything was poisonous; but when
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