| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: Now I must go back to meet her."
Then Arabella wished Sue good-bye, and went on.
VIII
IN the afternoon Sue and the other people bustling about Kennetbridge fair
could hear singing inside the placarded hoarding farther down the street.
Those who peeped through the opening saw a crowd of persons in broadcloth,
with hymn-books in their hands, standing round the excavations for
the new chapel-walls. Arabella Cartlett and her weeds stood among them.
She had a clear, powerful voice, which could be distinctly heard with
the rest, rising and falling to the tune, her inflated bosom being also seen
doing likewise.
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: but he managed to control himself to say,
"My daughter weds whom I select, and even now I
have practically closed negotiations for her betrothal to
Prince Philip, nephew of King Louis of France. And as
for you, sir, I would as lief see her the wife of the
Outlaw of Torn. He at least has wealth and power,
and a name that be known outside his own armor. But
enough of this; get you gone, nor let me see your face
again within the walls of Leicester's castle."
"You are right, My Lord, it were foolish and idle
for us to be quarreling with words," said the outlaw.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: there for the winter, and I went with them. I returned with them
to the town, and at midnight drank tea with them in quiet
domestic surroundings, while the fire glowed, and the young
mother kept going to see if her baby girl was asleep. And after
that, every time I went to town I never failed to visit the
Luganovitchs. They grew used to me, and I grew used to them. As a
rule I went in unannounced, as though I were one of the family.
" 'Who is there?' I would hear from a faraway room, in the
drawling voice that seemed to me so lovely.
" 'It is Pavel Konstantinovitch,' answered the maid or the nurs
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