| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: I retired into the large, empty dining-room, where all was silence
and darkness, but for the soft sighing of the wind without, and the
faint gleam of moonlight that pierced the blinds and curtains; and
there I walked rapidly up and down, thinking of my bitter thoughts
alone. How different was this from the evening of yesterday!
That, it seems, was the last expiring flash of my life's happiness.
Poor, blinded fool that I was to be so happy! I could now see the
reason of Arthur's strange reception of me in the shrubbery; the
burst of kindness was for his paramour, the start of horror for his
wife. Now, too, I could better understand the conversation between
Hattersley and Grimsby; it was doubtless of his love for her they
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: terrible flight on the lower Nueces and while he lay abed
recuperating he had changed. A fixed, immutable, hopeless
bitterness abided with him. He had reached the end of his rope.
All the power of his mind and soul were unavailable to turn him
back from his fate.
That fate was to become an outlaw in every sense of the term,
to be what he was credited with being--that is to say, to
embrace evil. He had never committed a crime. He wondered now
was crime close to him? He reasoned finally that the
desperation of crime had been forced upon him, if not its
motive; and that if driven, there was no limit to his
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: "That I will, certainly," said Don Quixote, "and according to the
rights of the case, if I can manage to understand it."
"Well, here it is, worthy sir," said the peasant; "a man of this
village who is so fat that he weighs twenty stone challenged
another, a neighbour of his, who does not weigh more than nine, to run
a race. The agreement was that they were to run a distance of a
hundred paces with equal weights; and when the challenger was asked
how the weights were to be equalised he said that the other, as he
weighed nine stone, should put eleven in iron on his back, and that in
this way the twenty stone of the thin man would equal the twenty stone
of the fat one."
Don Quixote |
