| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: disheveled state with a little start of dismay, but
when she got into the thick and press of the moving
crowd she found all the women more or less
disheveled. And they seemed all the prettier and
friendlier for that. It was a happy crowd and
voices were conspicuously hoarse.
When Madge entered the hotel parlor that
evening she found her uncle with guests and
among them was Burns Carroll. The presence
of the handsome giant affected Madge more
impellingly than ever before, yet in some
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: too long with his discovery. He had gone on looking
at nothing else, till at last one day it occurred to him
that the thing was so obvious that no one could miss
seeing it. There were four white men in all on board
the Sofala. Jack, the second engineer, was too dull to
notice anything that took place out of his engine-room.
Remained Massy--the owner--the interested person--
nearly going mad with worry. Sterne had heard and
seen more than enough on board to know what ailed him;
but his exasperation seemed to make him deaf to cau-
tious overtures. If he had only known it, there was the
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: who suck blood out of the people. All he heard
from the deported convicts, and those sentenced to
hard labour, with whom he had made friends in
prisons, confirmed him in his views. One man
had been sentenced to hard labour for having con-
victed his superiors of a theft; another for having
struck an official who had unjustly confiscated the
property of a peasant; a third because he forged
bank notes. The well-to-do-people, the mer-
chants, might do whatever they chose and come
to no harm; but a poor peasant, for a trumpery
The Forged Coupon |
