| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: exist...which had nothing in them! Void to void. Vaguely she knew. But
it was like beating her head against a stone.
Her father warned her again: 'Why don't you get yourself a beau,
Connie? Do you all the good in the world.'
That winter Michaelis came for a few days. He was a young Irishman who
had already made a large fortune by his plays in America. He had been
taken up quite enthusiastically for a time by smart society in London,
for he wrote smart society plays. Then gradually smart society realized
that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin
street-rat, and revulsion came. Michaelis was the last word in what was
caddish and bounderish. He was discovered to be anti-English, and to
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: is mighty woe!
That is because they preferred the love of this world's life to
the next;- but, verily, God guides not the unbelieving people. These
are they on whose hearts, and hearing, and eyesight, God has set a
stamp, and these, they are the careless. Without a doubt that in the
next life they will be the losers.
Then, verily, thy Lord, to those who fled after they had been tried,
and then fought strenuously and were patient,-verily, thy Lord after
that will be forgiving and merciful.
On the day every soul will come to wrangle for itself, and every
soul shall be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.--No; the
reason was,--'twas not his nature to insult.
Dr. Slop's presence at that time, was no less problematical than the mode
of it; tho' it is certain, one moment's reflexion in my father might have
solved it; for he had apprized Dr. Slop but the week before, that my mother
was at her full reckoning; and as the doctor had heard nothing since, 'twas
natural and very political too in him, to have taken a ride to Shandy-Hall,
as he did, merely to see how matters went on.
But my father's mind took unfortunately a wrong turn in the investigation;
running, like the hypercritick's, altogether upon the ringing of the bell
and the rap upon the door,--measuring their distance, and keeping his mind
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