| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: like Charlie, who isn't successful. Married people like you and Julia
have labels on you, like travellers' trunks. Julia is labelled MRS
ARNOLD B. HAMMOND--just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to
somebody. And you are labelled ARNOLD B. HAMMOND, C/O MRS ARNOLD B.
HAMMOND. Oh, you're quite right, you're quite right! The life of the
mind needs a comfortable house and decent cooking. You're quite right.
It even needs posterity. But it all hinges on the instinct for success.
That is the pivot on which all things turn.'
Hammond looked rather piqued. He was rather proud of the integrity of
his mind, and of his NOT being a time-server. None the less, he did
want success.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: time took up for nothing while I'm round hyeh," said the
cowpuncher.
He laid a gentle hold of Em'ly and tossed her to the ground. She,
of course, rushed out among the corrals in a great state of
nerves.
"I don't see what good you do meddling," I protested.
To this he deigned no reply, but removed the unresponsive stones
from the straw.
"Why, if they ain't right warm!" he exclaimed plaintively. "The
poor, deluded son-of-a-gun!" And with this unusual description of
a lady, he sent the stones sailing like a line of birds. "I'm
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civil,
but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss
Taylor for even half a day. It was a melancholy change; and Emma
could not but sigh over it, and wish for impossible things,
till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
His spirits required support. He was a nervous man, easily depressed;
fond of every body that he was used to, and hating to part with them;
hating change of every kind. Matrimony, as the origin of change,
was always disagreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled
to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but
with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affection,
Emma |
