| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: amongst our portable property. He had stolen nothing.
"He will be back before long," I said confidently.
Ten minutes afterwards one of the men on deck called out loudly:
"I can see him coming."
Cesar had only his shirt and trousers on. He had sold his coat,
apparently for pocket-money.
"You knave!" was all Dominic said, with a terrible softness of
voice. He restrained his choler for a time. "Where have you been,
vagabond?" he asked menacingly.
Nothing would induce Cesar to answer that question. It was as if
he even disdained to lie. He faced us, drawing back his lips and
The Mirror of the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: upon a letter bearing an American postmark and addressed to
Sergeant Chester Ball, with a lot of cryptic figures and letters
strung out after it, such as A.E.F. and Co. 11.
"Here's a letter for you!" She infused a lot of Glad into her
voice. But Chet only cast a languid eye upon it and said,
"Yeh?"
"I'll read it to you, shall I? It's a nice fat one."
Chet sat back, indifferent, negatively acquiescent. And Miss
Kate began to read in her clear young voice, there in the
sunshine and scent of the centuries-old English garden.
It marked an epoch in Chet's life--that letter. It reached out
One Basket |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: it."
"Claws!"
"I say, John," said Peter.
"Yes."
"Say, `Ay, ay, sir.'"
"Ay, ay, sir."
"There is one thing," Peter continued, "that every boy who
serves under me has to promise, and so must you."
John paled.
"It is this, if we meet Hook in open fight, you must leave him
to me."
Peter Pan |
