| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: or a dozen other things which would achieve the same end.
"Open the door on your side!" she commanded abruptly. "And get out
- without slowing the car! Do you understand?"
He turned his head for a half incredulous, half frightened look at
her. She met his eyes steadily - the torn veil, quite discarded now,
was in her pocket. She did not know the man; but it was quite
evident from the almost ludicrous dismay which spread over his face
that he knew her.
"The - the White Moll!" he stammered. "It's the White Moll!"
"Jump!" she ordered imperatively - and her revolver pressed still
more significantly against the man's flesh.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: As soon as I had ceased, a song most sweet
Throughout the heaven resounded, and my Lady
Said with the others, "Holy, holy, holy!"
And as at some keen light one wakes from sleep
By reason of the visual spirit that runs
Unto the splendour passed from coat to coat,
And he who wakes abhorreth what he sees,
So all unconscious is his sudden waking,
Until the judgment cometh to his aid,
So from before mine eyes did Beatrice
Chase every mote with radiance of her own,
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: was discomfiture in her face. "Well, good night!" she added;
and she turned into the house.
I accompanied her into the wide, dusky, stone-paved passage
which on the ground floor corresponded with our grand sala.
It opened at one end into the garden, at the other upon the canal,
and was lighted now only by the small lamp that was always
left for me to take up as I went to bed. An extinguished
candle which Miss Tita apparently had brought down with her
stood on the same table with it. "Good night, good night!"
I replied, keeping beside her as she went to get her light.
"Surely you would know, shouldn't you, if she had one?"
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