| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: called, that fell upon her at this moment and avenged her for the
incoherence of the message, an unintelligible enumeration of
numbers, colours, days, hours. The correspondence of people she
didn't know was one thing; but the correspondence of people she did
had an aspect of its own for her even when she couldn't understand
it. The speech in which Mrs. Jordan had defined a position and
announced a profession was like a tinkle of bluebells; but for
herself her one idea about flowers was that people had them at
funerals, and her present sole gleam of light was that lords
probably had them most. When she watched, a minute later, through
the cage, the swing of her visitor's departing petticoats, she saw
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: All that was left of Prince was now hoisted into the
waggon he had formerly hauled, and with his hoofs in
the air, and his shoes shining in the setting sunlight,
he retracted the eight or nine miles to Marlott.
Tess had gone back earlier. How to break the news was
more than she could think. It was a relief to her
tongue to find from the faces of her parents that they
already knew of their loss, though this did not lessen
the self-reproach which she continued to heap upon
herself for her negligence.
But the very shiftlessness of the household rendered
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Had robbed me of my wits: they would not hear me,
And, when I sware it on the holy book,
They bade the doctor cure me. They are ten,
Ten against one, and they possess your life.
They call me Duchess here in Padua.
I do not know, sir; if I be the Duchess,
I wrote your pardon, and they would not take it;
They call it treason, say I taught them that;
Maybe I did. Within an hour, Guido,
They will be here, and drag you from the cell,
And bind your hands behind your back, and bid you
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