| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: Morel turned round.
"Excuse me a minute," he said to Dawes, and he would have
run downstairs.
"By God, I'll stop your gallop!" shouted the smith, seizing him
by the arm. He turned quickly.
"Hey! Hey!" cried the office-boy, alarmed.
Thomas Jordan started out of his little glass office, and came
running down the room.
"What's a-matter, what's a-matter?" he said, in his old man's
sharp voice.
"I'm just goin' ter settle this little ---, that's all,"
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: and they shall not be helped!
And, verily, there is a torment beside that for those who do
wrong; but most of them do not know!
But wait thou patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, for thou art
in our eyes. And celebrate the praises of thy Lord what time thou
risest, and in the night, and at the fading of the stars!
THE CHAPTER OF THE STAR
(LIII. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the star when it falls, your comrade errs not, nor is he deluded!
nor speaks he out of lust! It is but an inspiration inspired! One
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: you love Menteith--by him you are beloved again, and Allan is no
more to you than one of the corpses which encumber yonder heath."
It cannot be supposed that this strange speech conveyed any new
information to her who was thus addressed. No woman ever lived
who could not, in the same circumstances, have discerned long
since the state of her lover's mind. But by thus suddenly
tearing off the veil, thin as it was, Allan prepared her to
expect consequences violent in proportion to the enthusiasm of
his character. She made an effort to repel the charge he had
stated.
"You forget," she said, "your own worth and nobleness when you
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