| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: But the funniest part of the whole morning's entertainment, was
undoubtedly the dancing of the little Dwarf. When he stumbled into
the arena, waddling on his crooked legs and wagging his huge
misshapen head from side to side, the children went off into a loud
shout of delight, and the Infanta herself laughed so much that the
Camerera was obliged to remind her that although there were many
precedents in Spain for a King's daughter weeping before her
equals, there were none for a Princess of the blood royal making so
merry before those who were her inferiors in birth. The Dwarf,
however, was really quite irresistible, and even at the Spanish
Court, always noted for its cultivated passion for the horrible, so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: consent to their engagement she had often asked herself what it was
marriage would be able to add to a familiarity that seemed already
to have scraped the platter so clean. Opposite there, behind the
counter of which his superior stature, his whiter apron, his more
clustering curls and more present, too present, H's had been for a
couple of years the principal ornament, he had moved to and fro
before her as on the small sanded floor of their contracted future.
She was conscious now of the improvement of not having to take her
present and her future at once. They were about as much as she
could manage when taken separate.
She had, none the less, to give her mind steadily to what Mr. Mudge
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "Do you know, Austin," said Villiers, as the two
friends were pacing sedately along Piccadilly one pleasant
morning in May, "do you know I am convinced that what you told
me about Paul Street and the Herberts is a mere episode in an
extraordinary history? I may as well confess to you that when I
asked you about Herbert a few months ago I had just seen him."
"You had seen him? Where?"
"He begged of me in the street one night. He was in
the most pitiable plight, but I recognized the man, and I got
him to tell me his history, or at least the outline of it. In
brief, it amounted to this--he had been ruined by his wife."
The Great God Pan |
