| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: Charlie brought in supper--stewed beef and pork in a bread-pan and
a wooden kit--and the Chinamen ate in silence with their sheath-
knives and from tin plates. A liquid that bore a distant
resemblance to coffee was served. Wilbur learned afterward to
know the stuff as Black Jack, and to be aware that it was made
from bud barley and was sweetened with molasses. A single reeking
lamp swung with the swinging of the schooner over the centre of
the group, and long after Wilbur could remember the grisly scene--
the punk-sticks, the bread-pan full of hunks of meat, the horrid
close and oily smell, and the circle of silent, preoccupied
Chinese, each sitting on his bunk-ledge, devouring stewed pork and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: gines. But by itself the sail power was not enough
to keep way on her. When the propeller went the
ship broached-to at once, and the masts got
whipped overboard.
The disadvantage of being dismasted consisted
in this, that they had nothing to hoist flags on to
make themselves visible at a distance. In the
course of the first few days several ships failed to
sight them; and the gale was drifting them out of
the usual track. The voyage had been, from the
first, neither very successful nor very harmonious.
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: themselves and their families too upon the resurrection day!' Ay,
verily, the unjust are in lasting torment!
And they shall have no patrons to help them beside God, and
whomsoever God leads astray, there is no way for him.
Assent to your Lord before the day comes of which there is no
averting from God; there is no refuge for you on that day; and for you
there is no denial.
But if they turn aside, we have not sent thee to them as a guardian,
thou hast only thy message to preach.
And, verily, when we have made man taste of mercy from us he
rejoices therein; but if there befall them an evil for what their
The Koran |
