| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: the catch of her paint-box to, more firmly than was necessary, and the
nick seemed to surround in a circle forever the paint-box, the lawn,
Mr Bankes, and that wild villain, Cam, dashing past.
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For Cam grazed the easel by an inch; she would not stop for Mr Bankes
and Lily Briscoe; though Mr Bankes, who would have liked a daughter of
his own, held out his hand; she would not stop for her father, whom she
grazed also by an inch; nor for her mother, who called "Cam! I want
you a moment!" as she dashed past. She was off like a bird, bullet, or
arrow, impelled by what desire, shot by whom, at what directed, who
could say? What, what? Mrs Ramsay pondered, watching her. It might
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring 350
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: shadow towards her, his face lifted like a pale blotch.
'Shall we go then?' he said.
'Where?'
'I'll go with you to the gate.'
He arranged things his own way. He locked the door of the hut and came
after her.
'You aren't sorry, are you?' he asked, as he went at her side.
'No! No! Are you?' she said.
'For that! No!' he said. Then after a while he added: 'But there's the
rest of things.'
'What rest of things?' she said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
