| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: Comrade Ossipon assumed correctly that no woman was capable of
wholly disbelieving such a statement. But he did not know that Mrs
Verloc accepted it with all the fierceness the instinct of self-
preservation puts into the grip of a drowning person. To the widow
of Mr Verloc the robust anarchist was like a radiant messenger of
life.
They walked slowly, in step. "I thought so," Mrs Verloc murmured
faintly.
"You've read it in my eyes," suggested Ossipon with great
assurance.
"Yes," she breathed out into his inclined ear.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: the distant shores running together towards the west, low and flat,
like the sides of an enormous canal. The sea-reach of the Thames
is straight, and, once Sheerness is left behind, its banks seem
very uninhabited, except for the cluster of houses which is
Southend, or here and there a lonely wooden jetty where petroleum
ships discharge their dangerous cargoes, and the oil-storage tanks,
low and round with slightly-domed roofs, peep over the edge of the
fore-shore, as it were a village of Central African huts imitated
in iron. Bordered by the black and shining mud-flats, the level
marsh extends for miles. Away in the far background the land
rises, closing the view with a continuous wooded slope, forming in
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: the street and yell for him, can't you? Or ask somebody if he's
inside. Get going."
When Prissy still lingered, shuffling her feet and mouthing,
Scarlett gave her another push which nearly sent her headlong down
the front steps.
"You'll go or I'll sell you down the river. You'll never see your
mother again or anybody you know and I'll sell you for a field hand
too. Hurry!"
"Gawdlmighty, Miss Scarlett--"
But under the determined pressure of her mistress' hand she started
down the steps. The front gate clicked and Scarlett cried: "Run,
Gone With the Wind |
