| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: ground beneath were wasps rolling drunk with the juice,
or creeping about the little caves in each fruit which
they had eaten out before stupefied by its sweetness.
By the door lay Clym's furze-hook and the last handful
of faggot-bonds she had seen him gather; they had plainly
been thrown down there as he entered the house.
6 - A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
Wildeve, as has been stated, was determined to visit
Eustacia boldly, by day, and on the easy terms of a relation,
since the reddleman had spied out and spoilt his walks
to her by night. The spell that she had thrown over him
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "And thou wouldst willingly show her a dapper body, in a silken
jerkin--a limb like a short-legged hen's, in a cordovan boot--
and a round, simpering, what-d'ye-lack sort of a countenance,
set off with a velvet bonnet, a Turkey feather, and a gilded
brooch? Ah! jolly mercer, they who have good wares are fond to
show them!--Come, gentles, let not the cup stand--here's to long
spurs, short boots, full bonnets, and empty skulls!"
"Nay, now, you are jealous of me, Mike," said Goldthred; "and yet
my luck was but what might have happened to thee, or any man."
"Marry confound thine impudence," retorted Lambourne; "thou
wouldst not compare thy pudding face, and sarsenet manners, to a
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: together with a yellowed photograph of the proprietor in
Masonic regalia. Two waitresses whom the guests--all men--
called by their first names, came and went with large trays.
Through the windows outside McTeague observed a great number
of saddle horses tied to trees and fences. Each one of
these horses had a riata on the pommel of the saddle. He
sat down to the table, eating his thick hot soup, watching
his neighbors covertly, listening to everything that was
said. It did not take him long to gather that the country
to the east and south of Keeler was a cattle country.
Not far off, across a range of hills, was the Panamint
McTeague |
