| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: afterward, the Russian fur-poachers rendezvous'd their bidarkas
and stole in through the Golden Gate to the forbidden waters of
San Francisco Bay.
Farther up the coast, in Sonoma County, we pilgrimaged to the
sites of the Russian settlements. At Bodega Bay, south of what
to-day is called Russian River, was their anchorage, while north
of the river they built their fort. And much of Fort Ross still
stands. Log-bastions, church, and stables hold their own, and so
well, with rusty hinges creaking, that we warmed ourselves at the
hundred-years-old double fireplace and slept under the hand-hewn
roof beams still held together by spikes of hand-wrought iron.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: dreaming as you say, what I saw would have roused me
effectually."
"What you saw? What did you see? Was there anything
strange about Crashaw? But I can't believe it; it is
impossible."
"Well, if you like I will tell you what I saw, or if
you please, what I think I saw, and you can judge for yourself."
"Very good, Villiers."
The noise and clamour of the street had died away,
though now and then the sound of shouting still came from the
distance, and the dull, leaden silence seemed like the quiet
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: delight in thinking of you as THEIRS. They're tremendously proud
of you."
"I'm not proud of THEM. But you know that," Morgan returned.
"Except for the little matter we speak of they're charming people,"
said Pemberton, not taking up the point made for his intelligence,
but wondering greatly at the boy's own, and especially at this
fresh reminder of something he had been conscious of from the first
- the strangest thing in his friend's large little composition, a
temper, a sensibility, even a private ideal, which made him as
privately disown the stuff his people were made of. Morgan had in
secret a small loftiness which made him acute about betrayed
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