| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all
harmony! He was amazed at the discord between the shallow optimism
of the day, and the real facts of existence. He was still very
young.
After a time he found himself in front of Marylebone Church. The
silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver,
flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and
outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the
driver asleep inside. He walked hastily in the direction of
Portland Place, now and then looking round, as though he feared
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: shall come to England more than once, and then it'll be to die.
Health I enjoy in the tropics; even here, which they call sub- or
semi-tropical, I come only to catch cold. I have not been out
since my arrival; live here in a nice bedroom by the fireside, and
read books and letters from Henry James, and send out to get his
TRAGIC MUSE, only to be told they can't be had as yet in Sydney,
and have altogether a placid time. But I can't go out! The
thermometer was nearly down to 50 degrees the other day - no
temperature for me, Mr. James: how should I do in England? I fear
not at all. Am I very sorry? I am sorry about seven or eight
people in England, and one or two in the States. And outside of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: which Jerez and Luis Torres and I had harbored in Cuba.
But this had fine sand for floor, and a row of calabashes,
and wood laid for fire.
Here Juan Lepe dropped, for all his head was swimming
with weariness.
The sun was up, the place glistered. Guarin showed how
it was hidden. ``I found it when I was a boy, and none but
Guarin hath ever come here until you come, Juan Lepe!
He had no fear, it was evident, of Caonabo's coming. ``They
will think your idol helped you away. If they look for you,
it will be in the cloud. They will say, `See that dark mark
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