| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: She stopped short, full of things un-said. Pretty! Ten
thousand days, ten thousand nights!
"You shall tell me your faults," said Manning. "If they matter
to you, they matter."
"It isn't precisely faults," said Ann Veronica. "It's something
that bothers me." Ten thousand! Put that way it seemed so
different.
"Then assuredly!" said Manning.
She found a little difficulty in beginning. She was glad when he
went on: "I want to be your city of refuge from every sort of
bother. I want to stand between you and all the force and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'When you are!'
He stooped and took out the scotch, then put his weight against the
chair. He was paler than Connie had ever seen him: and more absent.
Clifford was a heavy man: and the hill was steep. Connie stepped to the
keeper's side.
'I'm going to push too!' she said.
And she began to shove with a woman's turbulent energy of anger. The
chair went faster. Clifford looked round.
'Is that necessary?' he said.
'Very! Do you want to kill the man! If you'd let the motor work while
it would--'
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: With weary feet to the new Calvary,
Where we behold, as one who in a glass
Sees his own face, self-slain Humanity,
And in the dumb reproach of that sad gaze
Learn what an awful phantom the red hand of man can raise.
O smitten mouth! O forehead crowned with thorn!
O chalice of all common miseries!
Thou for our sakes that loved thee not hast borne
An agony of endless centuries,
And we were vain and ignorant nor knew
That when we stabbed thy heart it was our own real hearts we slew.
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