| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: as is clearly demonstrated by his anniversaries being celebrated
with marked emphasis by the heirs of the French Revolution, which
was not a political movement at all, but a great outburst of
morality. He had no imagination, as the most casual perusal of
"Emile" will prove. He was no novelist, whose first virtue is
the exact understanding of the limits traced by the reality of
his time to the play of his invention. Inspiration comes from
the earth, which has a past, a history, a future, not from the
cold and immutable heaven. A writer of imaginative prose (even
more than any other sort of artist) stands confessed in his
works. His conscience, his deeper sense of things, lawful and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: She ate no supper. She was too tired to eat, and there was the
pain. She put on her wraps and crept down the whitewashed
staircase.
The paved courtyard below was to be crossed and it was poorly
lighted. She achieved the street, however, without molestation.
To the street-car was only a block, but during that block she was
accosted twice. She was white and frightened when she reached the
car.
The Siebensternstrasse at last. The street was always dark; the
delicatessen shop was closed, but in the wild-game store next a
light was burning low, and a flame flickered before the little
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Varney, has been filled up; you must find a seat in another
barge."
Varney bowed, and withdrew.
"And you, too, our young Squire of the Cloak," added she, looking
at Raleigh, "must, for the time, go to the barge of our ladies of
honour. As for Tressilian, he hath already suffered too much by
the caprice of women that I should aggrieve him by my change of
plan, so far as he is concerned."
Leicester seated himself in his place in the barge, and close to
the Sovereign. Raleigh rose to retire, and Tressilian would have
been so ill-timed in his courtesy as to offer to relinquish his
Kenilworth |
