| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: river.
Even at a distance his well-proportioned figure,
something thoroughly sailor-like in his poise, made
him noticeable. On nearer view the intelligent,
quiet eyes, a well-bred face, the disciplined in-
dependence of his manner made up an attractive
personality. When, in addition, Mr. Burns told
me that he was the best seaman in the ship, I ex-
pressed my surprise that in his earliest prime and of
such appearance he should sign on as cook on board
a ship.
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: arbitrary, hot-tempered, and imperious he was! He had asked her to
come to Kew to advise him; he then told her that he had settled the
question already; he then proceeded to find fault with her. He was the
very opposite of William Rodney, she thought; he was shabby, his
clothes were badly made, he was ill versed in the amenities of life;
he was tongue-tied and awkward to the verge of obliterating his real
character. He was awkwardly silent; he was awkwardly emphatic. And yet
she liked him.
"I don't mean what I say," she repeated good-humoredly. "Well--?"
"I doubt whether you make absolute sincerity your standard in life,"
he answered significantly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and pulling one of them off the cart, began to knock his head
against the ground. If I had not seized him just at the moment,
I believe he would have killed the man there and then.
The other fellow jumped down and struck him over the head
with the butt end of his heavy whip. It was a horrible blow,
but he did not seem to mind it, but seized him also, and struggled
with the three of us, pulling us to and fro as if we were kittens.
You know I am no lightweight, and the others were both burly men.
At first he was silent in his fighting, but as we began to master him,
and the attendants were putting a strait waistcoat on him,
he began to shout, `I'll frustrate them! They shan't rob me!
Dracula |
