| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: until the train came and then walked away. . . . .
``My aunt says that I am too attractive and that I stare at the
men. Well, when she was with me a man did stare at me and I
stared back at him. I could have turned my head away, but I'm
not that kind of a girl. I'm a bad girl. Everyone believes me
so and I might just as well be. When I was little in my mother's
place I used to smoke and drink. I dream every night--often
about men doing bad things. I wake up and sit up to see if men
are there or if they are gone. My dreams are always just that
plain. If I read a book I can sit down and imagine all the
people are right before me. I can get it just by reading. If
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: and ever tinier cloudless. The sky had grown blue and bright, and
with the same softness, but with the same remoteness, it met his
questioning gaze.
"No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity
and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love HER."
Chapter 13
None but those who were most intimate with Alexey Alexandrovitch
knew that, while on the surface the coldest and most reasonable
of men, he had one weakness quite opposed to the general trend of
his character. Alexey Alexandrovitch could not hear or see a
child or woman crying without being moved. The sight of tears
Anna Karenina |
