| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: answer to her telegram and that he had not yet received her note.
She pictured him to herself as talking calmly to his mother and
Princess Sorokina and rejoicing at her sufferings. "Yes, I must
go quickly," she said, not knowing yet where she was going. She
longed to get away as quickly as possible from the feelings she
had gone through in that awful house. The servants, the walls,
the things in that house--all aroused repulsion and hatred in her
and lay like a weight upon her.
"Yes, I must go to the railway station, and if he's not there,
then go there and catch him." Anna looked at the railway
timetable in the newspapers. An evening train went at two minutes
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "This is a misunderstanding--a dreadful misunderstanding," she
cried out in her pretty broken English. "Oh, how does it happen
that you are here?"
"Through no choice of my own, madam, I assure you!" retorted
Tony, not over-pleased by his reception.
"But why--how--how did you make this unfortunate mistake?"
"Why, madam, if you'll excuse my candour, I think the mistake was
yours--"
"Mine?"
--"in sending me a letter--"
"YOU--a letter?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: me by betraying my secrets, my life, my children's lives, my
shame, my honor! There, you are nothing to me any longer. I hate
you. I will do all that I can to injure you. I will . . ."
Anger paralyzed her; the words died in her dry parched throat.
"Why, he is my son, my child; he is your brother, your
preserver!" cried Goriot. "Kiss his hand, Nasie! Stay, I will
embrace him myself," he said, straining Eugene to his breast in a
frenzied clasp. "Oh my boy! I will be more than a father to you;
if I had God's power, I would fling worlds at your feet. Why
don't you kiss him, Nasie? He is not a man, but an angel, a angel
out of heaven."
Father Goriot |
