| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: while he stared thunderstruck, with the gaping
scissors on his fingers, I shouted my discovery at
him fiendishly, in six words, without comment.
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I HEARD the clatter of the scissors escaping from
his hand, noted the perilous heave of his whole
person over the edge of the bunk after them, and
then, returning to my first purpose, pursued my
course on the deck. The sparkle of the sea filled
my eyes. It was gorgeous and barren, monotonous
and without hope under the empty curve of the
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: according to my order, but heard nothing from me. This I
indeed knew to be true, but the letters coming to my hand in
the time of my latter husband, I could do nothing in it, and
therefore chose to give no answer, that so he might rather
believe they had miscarried.
Being thus disappointed, he said, he carried on the old trade
ever since, though when he had gotten so much money, he
said, he did not run such desperate risks as he did before.
Then he gave me some account of several hard and desperate
encounters which he had with gentlemen on the road, who
parted too hardly with their money, and showed me some
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: what was tenfold worse, upon my mother's voluntary death. My
horror of my only friend, my aversion for this son who was to
marry me, my revolt against the whole current and conditions
of my life, were now complete. I was sitting stupefied by my
distress and helplessness, when, to my joy, a very pleasant
lady offered me her conversation. I clutched at the relief;
and I was soon glibly telling her the story in the doctor's
letter: how I was a Miss Gould, of Nevada City, going to
England to an uncle, what money I had, what family, my age,
and so forth, until I had exhausted my instructions, and, as
the lady still continued to ply me with questions, began to
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