| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to be discovered.
On regaining the plaza I had my third glimpse of the
captive girl. She was standing with her guards before the
entrance to the audience chamber, and as I approached she
gave me one haughty glance and turned her back full upon
me. The act was so womanly, so earthly womanly, that
though it stung my pride it also warmed my heart with a
feeling of companionship; it was good to know that someone
else on Mars beside myself had human instincts of a civilized
order, even though the manifestation of them was so painful
and mortifying.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
Now when she died there was silence in heaven
And silence at her end of the street.
The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: barely contriving to keep the fugitive in sight. Occasionally they
would shout to some boy to stop the animal, but he always wriggled
past and ran on as before.
"Let me take your hand, darling," said Jude. "You are getting out
of breath." She gave him her now hot hand with apparent willingness,
and they trotted along together.
"This comes of driving 'em home," she remarked. "They always know the way
back if you do that. They ought to have been carted over."
By this time the pig had reached an unfastened gate admitting
to the open down, across which he sped with all the agility
his little legs afforded. As soon as the pursuers had entered
Jude the Obscure |
