| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice.
He knew the breed, and he gave his advice in the certainty that it
would not be followed.
"They told us up above that the bottom was dropping out of the
trail and that the best thing for us to do was to lay over," Hal
said in response to Thornton's warning to take no more chances on
the rotten ice. "They told us we couldn't make White River, and
here we are." This last with a sneering ring of triumph in it.
"And they told you true," John Thornton answered. "The bottom's
likely to drop out at any moment. Only fools, with the blind luck
of fools, could have made it. I tell you straight, I wouldn't
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: its stark expression.
Of course there was quarreling between us, bitter quarreling, and
we said things to one another--long pent-up things that bruised
and crushed and cut. But over it all in my memory now is an
effect of deliberate confrontation, and the figure of Marion
stands up, pale, melancholy, tear-stained, injured, implacable
and dignified.
"You love her?" she asked once, and jerked that doubt into my
mind.
I struggled with tangled ideas and emotions. "I don't know what
love is. It's all sorts of things--it's made of a dozen strands
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: Therefore, though in her own sense of the words she was a married woman,
in the landlady's sense she was not.
The housewife looked embarrassed, and went down-stairs.
Sue sat by the window in a reverie, watching the rain.
Her quiet was broken by the noise of someone entering the house,
and then the voices of a man and woman in conversation
in the passage below. The land-lady's husband had arrived,
and she was explaining to him the incoming of the lodgers during
his absence.
His voice rose in sudden anger. "Now who wants such a woman here? and
perhaps a confinement! ... Besides, didn't I say I wouldn't have children?
Jude the Obscure |
