| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: that if he drank so much tea."
"Sea-sick," I said faintly--"sea-sick?"
"That's all," said Bickley. "The nerves of the stomach acting
on the brain or vice-versa--that is, if Bastin has a brain," he
added sotto voce.
"Oh!" groaned the prostrate clergyman. "I wish that I were
dead!"
"Don't trouble about that," answered Bickley. "I expect you
soon will be. Here, drink some whisky, you donkey."
Bastin sat up and obeyed, out of the bottle, for it was
impossible to pour anything into a glass, with results too
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: them remained formed between the house and the stables, while
several, dismounting, ransacked the various outbuildings. The
officer in command, accompanied by two men, walked up to the
front door. All the blinds on that side were down. The officer
told the servant who received him that he wanted to see his
master. He was answered that the master was away from home,
which was perfectly true.
I follow here the tale as told afterwards by the servant to my
grand-uncle's friends and relatives, and as I have heard it
repeated.
On receiving this answer the Cossack officer, who had been
Some Reminiscences |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: or blood-drinking pretas... Anyhow the malevolence of the Culex fasciatus
would justify the suspicion that some wicked human soul had been compressed
into that wailing speck of a body...
Now, to return to the subject of kerosene-oil, you can exterminate the
mosquitoes of any locality by covering with a film of kerosene all stagnant
water surfaces therein. The larvae die on rising to breathe; and the adult
females perish when they approach the water to launch their rafts of eggs.
And I read, in Dr. Howard's book, that the actual cost of freeing from
mosquitoes one American town of fifty thousand inhabitants, does not exceed
three hundred dollars!...
I wonder what would be said if the city-government of Tokyo -- which is
Kwaidan |
