| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: face queer and expressionless, save for an abstracted look of patience.
The dog Flossie, standing on guard almost between her master's legs,
moved uneasily, eyeing the chair with great suspicion and dislike, and
very much perplexed between the three human beings. The TABLEAU VIVANT
remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
'I expect she'll have to be pushed,' said Clifford at last, with an
affectation of SANG FROID.
No answer. Mellors' abstracted face looked as if he had heard nothing.
Connie glanced anxiously at him. Clifford too glanced round.
'Do you mind pushing her home, Mellors!' he said in a cool superior
tone. 'I hope I have said nothing to offend you,' he added, in a tone
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: go for one."
He tried to repeat his thanks to the two strangers; but at each
sentence the elder lady interrupted him, saying, "Tomorrow,
monsieur, pray be careful to put on leeches, or to be bled, and
drink a few cups of something healing. A fall may be dangerous."
The young girl stole a look at the painter and at the pictures in
the studio. Her expression and her glances revealed perfect
propriety; her curiosity seemed rather absence of mind, and her
eyes seemed to speak the interest which women feel, with the most
engaging spontaneity, in everything which causes us suffering.
The two strangers seemed to forget the painter's works in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: and his mighty trunk overshadowed the table,
bringing nearer to us the breadth of his shoulders,
the thickness of his neck, and that incongruous, an-
chorite head, burnt in the desert, hollowed and lean
as if by excesses of vigils and fasting. His beard
flowed imposingly downwards, out of sight, be-
tween the two brown hands gripping the edge of
the table, and his persistent glance made sombre by
the wide dilations of the pupils, fascinated.
"Imagine to yourselves," he said in his ordinary
voice, "that I have eaten man."
Falk |
