| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: She was resenting as she always did, the compulsion from outside.
He sat up and looked blankly out of the window. 'You do love me, don't
you?' she asked calmly. He looked down at her.
'Tha knows what tha knows. What dost ax for!' he said, a little
fretfully.
'I want you to keep me, not to let me go,' she said.
His eyes seemed full of a warm, soft darkness that could not think.
'When? Now?'
'Now in your heart. Then I want to come and live with you, always,
soon.'
He sat naked on the bed, with his head dropped, unable to think.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: I mean. I feel the moment is ill chosen; but O, Julia, if you
could only see yourself!'
'Mr Forsyth--'
'Don't call me by that beastly name!' cried the youth. 'Call me
Gideon!'
'O, never that,' from Julia. 'Besides, we have known each other
such a short time.'
'Not at all!' protested Gideon. 'We met at Bournemouth ever so
long ago. I never forgot you since. Say you never forgot me. Say
you never forgot me, and call me Gideon!'
'Isn't this rather--a want of reserve about Jimson?' enquired the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: was present; and, in spite of the fact that a certain connection with
affairs of gallantry had led to his having had his head pecked bare by
other cocks, he flapped a pair of wings--appendages as bare as two
pieces of bast--and crowed loudly.
As Chichikov approached the courtyard of the mansion he caught sight
of his host (clad in a green frock coat) standing on the verandah and
pressing one hand to his eyes to shield them from the sun and so get a
better view of the approaching carriage. In proportion as the britchka
drew nearer and nearer to the verandah, the host's eyes assumed a more
and more delighted expression, and his smile a broader and broader
sweep.
Dead Souls |
