| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Oft too comes looming vast along the sky
A march of waters; mustering from above,
The clouds roll up the tempest, heaped and grim
With angry showers: down falls the height of heaven,
And with a great rain floods the smiling crops,
The oxen's labour: now the dikes fill fast,
And the void river-beds swell thunderously,
And all the panting firths of Ocean boil.
The Sire himself in midnight of the clouds
Wields with red hand the levin; through all her bulk
Earth at the hurly quakes; the beasts are fled,
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: him a parcel. Vronsky, smiling, said something to her. The
carriage drove away, he ran rapidly up-stairs again.
The mists that had shrouded everything in her soul parted
suddenly. The feelings of yesterday pierced the sick heart with a
fresh pang. She could not understand now how she could have
lowered herself by spending a whole day with him in his house.
She went into his room to anDounce her determination.
"That was Madame Sorokina and her daughter. They came and brought
me the money and the deeds from maman. I couldn't get them
yesterday. How is your head, better?" he said quietly, not
wishing to see and to understand the gloomy and solemn expression
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: nice people."
"Be hanged if I know why," said the captain. "I liked
the old man well enough, though he was as rough as a hedge.
But you would never have cared to go there, even if you
might have, I am well sure."
"Why shouldn't I?"
"Your town tastes would find them far too countrified.
They sit in the kitchen, drink mead and elder-wine, and
sand the floor to keep it clean. A sensible way of life;
but how would you like it?"
"I thought Mrs. Yeobright was a ladylike woman?
Return of the Native |
