| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: scholarships and brilliant performance. Yet I think I made a fair
average running. And it was at school I heard first of the Door in
the Wall--that I was to hear of a second time only a month before
his death.
To him at least the Door in the Wall was a real door leading
through a real wall to immortal realities. Of that I am now quite
assured.
And it came into his life early, when he was a little fellow
between five and six. I remember how, as he sat making his
confession to me with a slow gravity, he reasoned and reckoned the
date of it. "There was," he said, "a crimson Virginia creeper in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: looking at each other most inimically. He caught
up his hat without more ado and I gave myself the
pleasure of calling after him:
"Take my advice and make Falk pay for break-
ing up your ship. You aren't likely to get any-
thing else out of him."
When I got on board my ship later on, the old
mate, who was very full of the events of the morn-
ing, remarked:
"I saw the tug coming back from the outer Roads
just before two P.M." (He never by any chance used
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: as the avenue before he overtook his man.
"Trefusis," he said breathlessly, "you must not go by the four
o'clock train."
"Why not?"
"Miss Lindsay is going to town by it."
"So much the better, my dear boy; so much the better. You are not
jealous of me now, are you?"
"Look here, Trefusis. I don't know and I don't ask what there has
been between you and Miss Lindsay, but your engagement has quite
upset her, and she is running away to London in consequence. If
she hears that you are going by the same train she will wait
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