| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: three hairpins drop unnoticed on the floor from her carelessly
arranged hair. She is too lazy and in too great a hurry to do her
hair up; she carelessly stuffs the falling curls under her hat,
and goes away.
When I go into the dining-room my wife asks me:
"Was Katya with you just now? Why didn't she come in to see us?
It's really strange . . . ."
"Mamma," Liza says to her reproachfully, "let her alone, if she
doesn't want to. We are not going down on our knees to her."
"It's very neglectful, anyway. To sit for three hours in the
study without remembering our existence! But of course she must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: breakfast, might excuse my sudden loss of appetite; and if a cold
ensued, the severer the better - it would help to account for the
sullen moods and moping melancholy likely to cloud my brow for long
enough.
CHAPTER XIII
'My dear Gilbert, I wish you would try to be a little more
amiable,' said my mother one morning after some display of
unjustifiable ill-humour on my part. 'You say there is nothing the
matter with you, and nothing has happened to grieve you, and yet I
never saw anyone so altered as you within these last few days. You
haven't a good word for anybody - friends and strangers, equals and
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: rich in bituminous matter; and see how it comes in pieces,
almost without dust! Ah, Mr. Starr! twenty years ago this
seam would have entered into a strong competition with Swansea
and Cardiff! Well, stokers will quarrel for it still, and if it
costs little to extract it from the mine, it will not sell
at a less price outside."
"Indeed," said Madge, who had taken the fragment of coal and was
examining it with the air of a connoisseur; "that's good quality
of coal. Carry it home, Simon, carry it back to the cottage!
I want this first piece of coal to burn under our kettle."
"Well said, wife!" answered the old overman, "and you shall see
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