| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: Medusa's head with serpentine locks set mysteriously on the
shoulders of that familiar person, in that brown dress, under that
hat she knew so well. It made her lose all her hold on reality.
She told Mrs. Fyne: "I didn't know where I was. I didn't even know
that I was frightened. If she had told me it was a joke I would
have laughed. If she had told me to put on my hat and go out with
her I would have gone to put on my hat and gone out with her and
never said a single word; I should have been convinced I had been
mad for a minute or so, and I would have worried myself to death
rather than breathe a hint of it to her or anyone. But the wretch
put her face close to mine and I could not move. Directly I had
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: those who immediately surrounded her enabled her to judge her brother,
although she adored him. After witnessing the failure of the hopes she
had set upon her idol, she had too much real maternity in her feeling
for him to let herself be mistaken as to his social value.
Thuillier and his sister were children of the head porter at the
ministry of finance. Jerome had escaped, thanks to his near-
sightedness, all drafts and conscriptions. The father's ambition was
to make his son a government clerk. At the beginning of this century
the army presented too many posts not to leave various vacancies in
the government offices. A deficiency of minor officials enabled old
Pere Thuillier to hoist his son upon the lowest step of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: there. I did not remember that what was good enough for me was
not good enough for you."
Her face faded into an aspect of deep distress when she saw what
had happened. "Oh no, Giles," she said, with extreme pathos;
"certainly not. Why do you--say that when you know better? You
EVER will misunderstand me."
"Indeed, that's not so, Mrs. Fitzpiers. Can you deny that you
felt out of place at The Three Tuns?"
"I don't know. Well, since you make me speak, I do not deny it."
"And yet I have felt at home there these twenty years. Your
husband used always to take you to the Earl of Wessex, did he
The Woodlanders |
