| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: if you sent the story to them, even if they didn't publish it.
Why don't you think of that?"
"Fine--great idea! I'll do that. Only I'll have to write it out
of business hours. It will be extra work."
"Never mind, you do it; and," she added, as he put her on the
cable car, "keep your mind on that thirty-thousand-word story of
adventure. Good-by, Condy; haven't we had the jolliest day that
ever was?"
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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: 'It's obvious I'm at everybody's mercy!' said Clifford. He was yellow
with anger.
No one answered. Mellors was slinging his gun over his shoulder, his
face queer and expressionless, save for an abstracted look of patience.
The dog Flossie, standing on guard almost between her master's legs,
moved uneasily, eyeing the chair with great suspicion and dislike, and
very much perplexed between the three human beings. The TABLEAU VIVANT
remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
'I expect she'll have to be pushed,' said Clifford at last, with an
affectation of SANG FROID.
No answer. Mellors' abstracted face looked as if he had heard nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: his son by rousing him to tremendous emotions. Robert, beggared,
frenzied, searching everything, eager for blood, fire, and sword, is
his own son; in this mood he is exactly like his father. What hideous
glee we hear in Bertram's words: '/Je ris de tes coups/!' And how
perfectly the Venetian /barcarole/ comes in here. Through what
wonderful transitions the diabolical parent is brought on to the stage
once more to make Robert throw the dice.
"This first act is overwhelming to any one capable of working out the
subjects in his very heart, and lending them the breadth of
development which the composer intended them to call forth.
"Nothing but love could now be contrasted with this noble symphony of
Gambara |
