| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: poignantly grateful for a piece of natural, spontaneous kindness:
almost to tears. Beneath his pale, immobile, disillusioned face, his
child's soul was sobbing with gratitude to the woman, and burning to
come to her again; just as his outcast soul was knowing he would keep
really clear of her.
He found an opportunity to say to her, as they were lighting the
candles in the hall:
'May I come?'
'I'll come to you,' she said.
'Oh, good!'
He waited for her a long time...but she came.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: self.
"Let me go!" she whispered. "Let me go--the king!"
Barney sprang to his feet and, turning, faced Leopold.
The king had gone quite white.
"Failing to rob me of my crown," he cried in a trembling
voice, "you now seek to rob me of my betrothed! Go to
your father at once, and as for you--you shall learn what
it means for you thus to meddle in the affairs of kings."
Barney saw the terrible position in which his love had
placed the Princess Emma. His only thought now was for
her. Bowing low before her he spoke so that the king might
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: wish you could change places with the man in there." He rolled his
eyes.
A man near, who had been reading last night's paper, dropped it
quickly and tiptoed toward us. He peered between the partly open
curtains, closed them quietly and went back, ostentatiously solemn,
to his seat. The very crackle with which he opened his paper added
to the bursting curiosity of the car. For the passengers knew that
something was amiss: I was conscious of a sudden tension.
With the curtains closed the porter was more himself; he wiped his
lips with a handkerchief and stood erect.
"It's my last trip in this car," he remarked heavily. "There's
The Man in Lower Ten |
