| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: though he inclined to take the easiest view of his responsibilities,
he cared too much for this daughter to let things be.
"I confess I find great difficulty in following you. I should like to
hear William's side of the story," he said irritably. "I think he
ought to have spoken to me in the first instance."
"I wouldn't let him," said Katharine. "I know it must seem to you very
strange," she added. "But I assure you, if you'd wait a little--until
mother comes back."
This appeal for delay was much to Mr. Hilbery's liking. But his
conscience would not suffer it. People were talking. He could not
endure that his daughter's conduct should be in any way considered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: afraid of something, I don't know what. I remember, though I suppose
I was asleep, passing through the streets and over the bridge.
A fish leaped as I went by, and I leaned over to look at it,
and I heard a lot of dogs howling. The whole town seemed as if it
must be full of dogs all howling at once, as I went up the steps.
Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes,
just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter
all around me at once. And then I seemed sinking into deep green water,
and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to
drowning men, and then everything seemed passing away from me.
My soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: "Bah! you can confess it," said Thuillier, the free-thinker.
"And now," said Theodose to Brigitte, "you can pay, in all security,
the cost of the house,--eighty thousand francs, and thirty thousand to
Grindot; in all, with what you have paid in costs, one hundred and
twenty thousand; and this last twenty thousand added make one hundred
and forty thousand. If you let the house outright to a single tenant
ask him for the last year's rent in advance, and reserve for my wife
and me the whole of the first floor above the entresol. Make those
conditions and you'll still get your forty thousand francs a year. If
you should want to leave this quarter so as to be nearer the Chamber,
you can always take up your abode with us on that vast first floor,
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