| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: above.
"Dive!" he cried. "Dive!"
I looked at Dian and then down at the abyss below
us. The cove appeared no larger than a saucer. How
Juag ever had hit it I could not guess.
"Dive!" cried Juag. "It is the only way--there is no
time to climb down."
CHAPTER XI
ESCAPE
Dian glanced downward and shuddered. Her tribe
were hill people--they were not accustomed to swim-
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: instances I had heard of topmasts being whipped
out of a ship while there was not wind enough on
her deck to blow out a match rushed into my
memory.
"I can't see the upper sails, sir," declared
Gambril shakily.
"Don't move the helm. You'll be all right," I
said confidently.
The poor man's nerves were gone. Mine were
not in much better case. It was the moment of
breaking strain and was relieved by the abrupt
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: rate a little of it. I see new developments in art and life, each
one of which is a fresh mode of perfection. I long to live so that
I can explore what is no less than a new world to me. Do you want
to know what this new world is? I think you can guess what it is.
It is the world in which I have been living. Sorrow, then, and all
that it teaches one, is my new world.
I used to live entirely for pleasure. I shunned suffering and
sorrow of every kind. I hated both. I resolved to ignore them as
far as possible: to treat them, that is to say, as modes of
imperfection. They were not part of my scheme of life. They had
no place in my philosophy. My mother, who knew life as a whole,
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