| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: endeavored to define the forms of distant objects, starting away,
with almost ghostly indistinctness, just as his eye appeared to
grasp them, and finally he took a minute survey of an edifice
which stood on the opposite side of the street, directly in front
of the church-door, where he was stationed. It was a large,
square mansion, distinguished from its neighbors by a balcony,
which rested on tall pillars, and by an elaborate Gothic window,
communicating therewith.
"Perhaps this is the very house I have been seeking," thought
Robin.
Then he strove to speed away the time, by listening to a murmur
The Snow Image |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: Jock Crozer, that gied me the billet.'
'Jock Crozer!' cried the lady. 'I'll Crozer them! Crozers
indeed! What next? Are we to repose the lives of a
suffering remnant in Crozers? The whole clan of them wants
hanging, and if I had my way of it, they wouldna want it
long. Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your
forebear at the kirk-door?'
'You see, he was bigger 'n me,' said Francie.
'Jock Crozer!' continued the lady. 'That'll be Clement's
son, the biggest thief and reiver in the country-side. To
trust a note to him! But I'll give the benefit of my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: company did not begin to come ashore till much
later in the day. . . ."
The doctor gathered the reins, clicked his
tongue; we trotted down the hill. Then turning,
almost directly, a sharp corner into the High
Street, we rattled over the stones and were home.
Late in the evening Kennedy, breaking a spell
of moodiness that had come over him, returned to
the story. Smoking his pipe, he paced the long
room from end to end. A reading-lamp concen-
trated all its light upon the papers on his desk;
Amy Foster |
