| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Father, there can be but one end and that the lower
end of a hempen rope."
"No, my son, there is another way, an honorable
way," replied the good Father. "In some foreign clime
there be opportunities abundant for such as thee. France
offers a magnificent, future to such a soldier as Norman
of Torn. In the court of Louis you would take your
place among the highest of the land. You be rich and
brave and handsome, nay do not raise your hand, you
be all these and more, for you have learning far beyond
the majority of nobles, and you have a good heart and
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: attention on any book of these you like, and sit with your back to me,
and leave me to my custom? You are sure you won't join me?"
"I'll look at you."
"No. Don't tease, Sue!"
"Very well--I'll do just as you bid me, and I won't vex you, Jude,"
she replied, in the tone of a child who was going to be good for ever after,
turning her back upon him accordingly. A small Bible other than the one
he was using lay near her, and during his retreat she took it up,
and turned over the leaves.
"Jude," she said brightly, when he had finished and come back to her;
"will you let me make you a NEW New Testament, like the one I made
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: neighbourhood, to whom she had been engaged
some twenty-five years ago--a young farmer who
broke his neck out hunting on the eve of the wed-
ding day. She had the unmoved countenance of
the deaf, spoke very seldom, and her lips, thin like
her father's, astonished one sometimes by a myste-
riously ironic curl.
"These were the people to whom he owed alle-
giance, and an overwhelming loneliness seemed to
fall from the leaden sky of that winter without sun-
shine. All the faces were sad. He could talk to
Amy Foster |
