| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: thing remarkably earnest in his gaze prevented
me from laughing in his face. Neither did I
yawn at him. I just stared.
His tone became a shade more mysterious.
Directly the fellow (meaning the Steward) got
that note he rushed for his hat and bolted out of
the house. But it wasn't because the note called
him to the Harbour Office. He didn't go there.
He was not absent long enough for that. He came
darting back in no time, flung his hat away, and
raced about the dining room moaning and slapping
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sent disease and death among us!"
Ever dear to Hiawatha
Was the memory of Mama!
And in token of his friendship,
As a mark of his remembrance,
He adorned and decked his pipe-stem
With the crimson tuft of feathers,
With the blood-red crest of Mama.
But the wealth of Megissogwon,
All the trophies of the battle,
He divided with his people,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: toes doubled in; it hops upon the other. Apart from this, the
patient does not seem to trouble much about his hurt; his appetite
is good. My daughters feed him on Flies, bread-crumb, apricot-
pulp. He is sure to get well, he will recover his strength; the
poor victim of the curiosity of science will be restored to
liberty. This is the wish, the intention of us all. Twelve hours
later, the hope of a cure increases; the invalid takes nourishment
readily; he clamours for it, if we keep him waiting. But the leg
still drags. I set this down to a temporary paralysis which will
soon disappear. Two days after, he refuses his food. Wrapping
himself in his stoicism and his rumpled feathers, the Sparrow
The Life of the Spider |
