| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: rily casts eyes at in a sense. She made no noise,
but she filled most satisfactorily a good bit of space.
"But you, captain, are not the same kind of
man," observed Hermann.
I was not, I am happy to say, in a position to
deny this. "What about the lady?" I could not
help asking. At this he gazed for a time into my
face, earnestly, and made as if to change the sub-
ject. I heard him beginning to mutter something
unexpected, about his children growing old enough
to require schooling. He would have to leave them
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: form of a man. But of course in the eyes of the world this was a
murder like any other, and the man who had committed it knew that
he was under the ban of the law, that it was only a chance that the
arm of justice had not yet reached out for him. And now this arm
had reached out for him, although it was no longer necessary. For
Herbert Thorne was not the man to allow another to suffer in his
stead.
As soon as he knew that another had been arrested and was under
suspicion of the murder, he knew that there was nothing more for
him but open confession. But he wished to avoid a scandal even now.
If he died by his own hand, then the first cause of all this trouble,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: I'll show it to you. [Goes across to the table.]
LORD WINDERMERE. [Coming up to MRS. ERLYNNE and speaking in a low
voice.] It is monstrous your intruding yourself here after your
conduct last night.
MRS. ERLYNNE. [With an amused smile.] My dear Windermere, manners
before morals!
LADY WINDERMERE. [Returning.] I'm afraid it is very flattering -
I am not so pretty as that. [Showing photograph.]
MRS. ERLYNNE. You are much prettier. But haven't you got one of
yourself with your little boy?
LADY WINDERMERE. I have. Would you prefer one of those?
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