| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: Armour, of course, was there too, living at Laurie's Hotel, and
painting, Dora assured me, with immense energy. It was just the
place for Armour, a sumptuous dynasty wrecked in white marble and
buried in desert sands for three hundred years; and I was glad to
hear that he was making the most of it. It was quite by the way,
but I had lent him the money to go there--somebody had to lend it to
him--and when he asked me to decide whether he should take his
passage for Marseilles or use it for this other purpose I could
hardly hesitate, believing in him, as I did, to urge him to paint a
little more of India before he went. I frankly despaired of his
ever being able to pay his way in Simla without Kauffer, but that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: property up between everybody, you'd have rich and poor again in a
year."
Billy perceived no way of explaining away this version of his
Socialism that would not involve uncivil contradictions--and nobody
ever contradicted Lady Marayne.
"But, Lady Marayne, don't you think there is a lot of disorder and
injustice in the world?" he protested.
"There would be ever so much more if your Socialists had their way."
"But still, don't you think-- . . ."
It is unnecessary even to recapitulate these universal controversies
of our time. The lunch-table and the dinner-table and the general
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
