| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: suspiciously: every movement woke a new sentiment in her. After a
pause and a prolonged gaze, she resumed; addressing me in accents
of indignant disappointment:-
'Oh, you see, Nelly, he would not relent a moment to keep me out of
the grave. THAT is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not
MY Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's
in my soul. And,' added she musingly, 'the thing that irks me most
is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired of being enclosed
here. I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be
always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for
it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: SECOND CITIZEN
A sermon is but a sorry sauce, when
You have nothing to eat with it.
DUCHESS
Poor people,
You see I have no power with the Duke,
But if you go into the court without,
My almoner shall from my private purse,
Divide a hundred ducats 'mongst you all.
FIRST CITIZEN
God save the Duchess, say I.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: furnished houses, hours of trains, dates of sailings and
arrangements for being "met"; she found them for the most part
prosaic and coarse. The only thing was that they brought into her
stuffy corner as straight a whiff of Alpine meadows and Scotch
moors as she might hope ever to inhale; there were moreover in
especial fat hot dull ladies who had out with her, to exasperation,
the terms for seaside lodgings, which struck her as huge, and the
matter of the number of beds required, which was not less
portentous: this in reference to places of which the names--
Eastbourne, Folkestone, Cromer, Scarborough, Whitby--tormented her
with something of the sound of the plash of water that haunts the
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