| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: very midst stands one of the most satisfactory crags in
nature - a Bass Rock upon dry land, rooted in a garden
shaken by passing trains, carrying a crown of battlements
and turrets, and describing its war-like shadow over the
liveliest and brightest thoroughfare of the new town.
From their smoky beehives, ten stories high, the unwashed
look down upon the open squares and gardens of the
wealthy; and gay people sunning themselves along Princes
Street, with its mile of commercial palaces all beflagged
upon some great occasion, see, across a gardened valley
set with statues, where the washings of the Old Town
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: still chewing.
'May I come in?' she said.
'Come in!'
The sun shone into the bare room, which still smelled of a mutton chop,
done in a dutch oven before the fire, because the dutch oven still
stood on the fender, with the black potato-saucepan on a piece of
paper, beside it on the white hearth. The fire was red, rather low, the
bar dropped, the kettle singing.
On the table was his plate, with potatoes and the remains of the chop;
also bread in a basket, salt, and a blue mug with beer. The table-cloth
was white oil-cloth, he stood in the shade.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: found one of these pieces of the telegram on the train. I thought
it had been dropped by some one else, you see, but that's immaterial.
Arranged this way it almost makes sense. Fill out that 'p.-' with
the rest of the word, as I imagine it, and it makes 'papers,' and add
this scrap and you have:
"'Man with papers (in) lower ten, car seven. Get (them).'
McKnight slapped Hotchkiss on the back. "You're a trump," he said.
"Br- is Bronson, of course. It's almost too easy. You see, Mr.
Blakeley here engaged lower ten, but found it occupied by the man
who was later murdered there. The man who did the thing was a
friend of Bronson's, evidently, and in trying to get the papers we
The Man in Lower Ten |
