| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: the strong smell of sunflowers and ironweed in the dew, the clear blue
and gold of the sky, the evening star, the purr of the milk into the pails,
the grunts and squeals of the pigs fighting over their supper.
I began to feel the loneliness of the farm-boy at evening, when the chores
seem everlastingly the same, and the world so far away.
What a tableful we were at supper: two long rows of restless
heads in the lamplight, and so many eyes fastened excitedly upon
Antonia as she sat at the head of the table, filling the plates
and starting the dishes on their way. The children were seated
according to a system; a little one next an older one, who was
to watch over his behaviour and to see that he got his food.
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: table where his hat and gloves are. MRS. ARBUTHNOT is standing
close to the table. He picks up one of the gloves, and begins
pulling it on.] There is not much then for me to do here, Rachel?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Nothing.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. It is good-bye, is it?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. For ever, I hope, this time, Lord Illingworth.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. How curious! At this moment you look exactly as
you looked the night you left me twenty years ago. You have just
the same expression in your mouth. Upon my word, Rachel, no woman
ever loved me as you did. Why, you gave yourself to me like a
flower, to do anything I liked with. You were the prettiest of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: of Infants -- --12 1 --2 --1 --1
Bankruptcy Offences ... ... ... I 1 --1 1'3 5 --6
Offences against Religion and Ministers
of Religion -- 1 --1 -- --7 .o7
Duelling ... .. .. ... ... ... -- .04 .03 -- -- --
Abortion ... ... ... ... ... -- -- -- og -- --OI
Offences against the Game Laws -- -- -- -- 13 12-7
Drunkenness -- -- -- -- 1 5 1 5
Offences against Public Decency -- -- -- -- I-8 1.7
Adultery ... ... ... ... ... -- -- -- --5 5
Offences against Morality, with Incitement
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