| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: her being went out in the desire--which her face must have
expressed--that he should recognise her forbearance to criticise as
one of the finest tenderest sacrifices a woman had ever made for
love.
CHAPTER XII
She was occasionally worried, however this might be, by the
impression that these sacrifices, great as they were, were nothing
to those that his own passion had imposed; if indeed it was not
rather the passion of his confederate, which had caught him up and
was whirling him round like a great steam-wheel. He was at any
rate in the strong grip of a dizzy splendid fate; the wild wind of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,
Though slackly braided in loose negligence.
A thousand favours from a maund she drew
Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,
Which one by one she in a river threw,
Upon whose weeping margent she was set;
Like usury applying wet to wet,
Or monarchs' hands, that lets not bounty fall
Where want cries 'some,' but where excess begs all.
Of folded schedules had she many a one,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: and completely unclean. But Mrs. Hermann would
raise her fine womanly eyes from her needlework to
look on with amused sympathy, and did not seen to
see it, somehow, that this object of affection was a
disgrace to the ship's purity. Purity, not cleanli-
ness, is the word. It was pushed so far that I seemed
to detect in this too a sentimental excess, as if dirt
had been removed in very love. It is impossible to
give you an idea of such a meticulous neatness. It
was as if every morning that ship had been ardu-
ously explored with--with toothbrushes. Her very
Falk |
