| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: After a pause she asked:
"And would you care for that argument to be used?"
"As long as you know better!"
His voice vibrated--she drew back disturbed, as if unexpectedly
he had touched her.
"What can there be at stake?" she began, wonderingly.
"A kingdom," said Lingard.
Mrs. Travers leaned far over the rail, staring, and their faces,
one above the other, came very close together.
"Not for yourself?" she whispered.
He felt the touch of her breath on his forehead and remained
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: the walls of your bedrooms are the ones about love. It is disgusting.
It is not healthy. Your women are kept idle and dressed up for no
other purpose than to be made love to. I have not been here an hour;
and already everybody makes love to me as if because I am a woman it
were my profession to be made love to. First you, old pal. I forgave
you because you were nice about your wife.
HYPATIA. Oh! oh! oh! Oh, papa!
LINA. Then you, Lord Summerhays, come to me; and all you have to say
is to ask me not to mention that you made love to me in Vienna two
years ago. I forgave you because I thought you were an ambassador;
and all ambassadors make love and are very nice and useful to people
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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: was the only brilliant course. But to do this a good deal of coaching
would be necessary, and much natural ability. It was next to impossible
that a man reading on his own system, however widely and thoroughly,
even over the prolonged period of ten years, should be able to compete
with those who had passed their lives under trained teachers and had worked
to ordained lines.
The other course, that of buying himself in, so to speak, seemed the only one
really open to men like him, the difficulty being simply of a material kind.
With the help of his information he began to reckon the extent of this
material obstacle, and ascertained, to his dismay, that, at the rate at which,
with the best of fortune, he would be able to save money, fifteen years must
Jude the Obscure |
