| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: figure. She sat down in silence, and I seated myself beside her and
took her hand without her noticing it. Forgotten for a portrait! At
that moment we heard in the silence a woman's footstep and the faint
rustling of a dress. We saw the youthful Marianina enter the boudoir,
even more resplendent by reason of her grace and her fresh costume;
she was walking slowly and leading with motherly care, with a
daughter's solicitude, the spectre in human attire, who had driven us
from the music-room; as she led him, she watched with some anxiety the
slow movement of his feeble feet. They walked painfully across the
boudoir to a door hidden in the hangings. Marianina knocked softly.
Instantly a tall, thin man, a sort of familiar spirit, appeared as if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: GLOUCESTER. Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong.
I was too hot to do somebody good
That is too cold in thinking of it now.
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid;
He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains;
God pardon them that are the cause thereof!
RIVERS. A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,
To pray for them that have done scathe to us!
GLOUCESTER. So do I ever- [Aside] being well advis'd;
For had I curs'd now, I had curs'd myself.
Enter CATESBY
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected,
perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one
hopelessly discontented with one's own work. Mr Bankes thought one
could carry that point of view too far. We can't all be Titians and we
can't all be Darwins, he said; at the same time he doubted whether you
could have your Darwin and your Titian if it weren't for humble people
like ourselves. Lily would have liked to pay him a compliment; you're
not humble, Mr Bankes, she would have liked to have said. But he did
not want compliments (most men do, she thought), and she was a little
ashamed of her impulse and said nothing while he remarked that perhaps
what he was saying did not apply to pictures. Anyhow, said Lily,
To the Lighthouse |
