| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: and the snarling of the electric cars.
Thus, as if to challenge the poet's flaunt at ro-
mance and to punish him for his recreancy to the
undying spirit of youth and beauty, this vision bad
dawned upon him with a thrilling and accusive power.
And so metabolic was the power that in an instant
the atoms of Ravenel's entire world were redistrib-
uted. The laden drays that passed the house in which
she lived rumbled a deep double-bass to the tune of
love. The newsboys' shouts were the notes of singing
birds; that garden was the pleasance of the Capulets;
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: neatly her prayer-book is folded in her spotted handkerchief.
That good-looking young fellow, in a new fustian suit, who walks
behind her, is not quite sure upon the question of hair in the
abstract, when Eppie puts it to him, and thinks that perhaps
straight hair is the best in general, but he doesn't want Eppie's
hair to be different. She surely divines that there is some one
behind her who is thinking about her very particularly, and
mustering courage to come to her side as soon as they are out in the
lane, else why should she look rather shy, and take care not to turn
away her head from her father Silas, to whom she keeps murmuring
little sentences as to who was at church and who was not at church,
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Than sister; and if ever holy maid
With knees of adoration wore the stone,
A holy maid; though never maiden glowed,
But that was in her earlier maidenhood,
With such a fervent flame of human love,
Which being rudely blunted, glanced and shot
Only to holy things; to prayer and praise
She gave herself, to fast and alms. And yet,
Nun as she was, the scandal of the Court,
Sin against Arthur and the Table Round,
And the strange sound of an adulterous race,
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