| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Sambir. Now the white officers are coming, guided by her and
Reshid. If you want to live, do not look at me, but go!"
"How do you know this?" asked Almayer.
"Oh, Tuan! what matters how I know! I have only one eye, but I
saw lights in Abdulla's house and in his campong as we were
paddling past. I have ears, and while we lay under the bank I
have heard the messengers sent out to the white men's house."
"Will you depart without that woman who is my daughter?" said
Almayer, addressing Dain, while Babalatchi stamped with
impatience, muttering, "Run! Run at once!"
"No," answered Dain, steadily, "I will not go; to no man will I
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: figure of my body, whether it were covered or not;" adding, "that
he waited with some impatience to hear the wonders which I
promised to tell him."
Thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to instruct me:
he brought me into all company, and made them treat me with
civility; "because," as he told them, privately, "this would put
me into good humour, and make me more diverting."
Every day, when I waited on him, beside the trouble he was at in
teaching, he would ask me several questions concerning myself,
which I answered as well as I could, and by these means he had
already received some general ideas, though very imperfect. It
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a fellow named Theriere, second mate of this ship. They sent
him to learn your plans; when you expected sailing from
Honolulu and your course. They are all crooks and villains. If
I hadn't done as they bid they would have killed me."
The girl made no comment, but Divine saw the contempt in
her face.
"I didn't know that they were going to do this. If I had I'd
have died before I'd have written that note," he added rather
lamely.
The girl was suddenly looking very sad. She was thinking
of Billy Mallory who had died in an effort to save her. The
The Mucker |
