| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: in those days well favoured, and pleased by his exterior.
There was, at that period, a certain extramural teacher of
anatomy, whom I shall here designate by the letter K. His
name was subsequently too well known. The man who bore it
skulked through the streets of Edinburgh in disguise, while
the mob that applauded at the execution of Burke called
loudly for the blood of his employer. But Mr. K- was then at
the top of his vogue; he enjoyed a popularity due partly to
his own talent and address, partly to the incapacity of his
rival, the university professor. The students, at least,
swore by his name, and Fettes believed himself, and was
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: that trailed after one, no matter how far one went.'
He looked at her, annoyed.
'What I mean,' he said, 'is that if you go to Venice, you won't go in
the hopes of some love affair that you can take AU GRAND SRIEUX, will
you?'
'A love affair in Venice AU GRAND SRIEUX? No. I assure you! No, I'd
never take a love affair in Venice more than AU TRÔS PETIT SRIEUX.'
She spoke with a queer kind of contempt. He knitted his brows, looking
at her.
Coming downstairs in the morning, she found the keeper's dog Flossie
sitting in the corridor outside Clifford's room, and whimpering very
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: was thinking to myself,' would answer wearily another
battered and bandaged scarecrow. And, mind, these were
men without the drilled-in habit of obedience. To an
onlooker they would be a lot of profane scallywags
without a redeeming point. What made them do it--
what made them obey me when I, thinking consciously
how fine it was, made them drop the bunt of the foresail
twice to try and do it better? What? They had no pro-
fessional reputation--no examples, no praise. It wasn't
a sense of duty; they all knew well enough how to shirk,
and laze, and dodge--when they had a mind to it--and
Youth |
