| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: "Perhaps he thought they would annoy you," said
Asano.
"They must be replaced directly I return," said
Graham after an interval.
He found a difficulty in understanding that this
news room and the dining hall were not great central
places, that such establishments were repeated almost
beyond counting all over the city. But ever and
again during the night's expedition his ears, in some
new quarter would pick out from the tumult of the
ways the peculiar hooting of the organ of Boss
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: was never really warm, nor even kind, only thoughtful, considerate, in
a well-bred, cold sort of way! But never warm as a man can be warm to a
woman, as even Connie's father could be warm to her, with the warmth of
a man who did himself well, and intended to, but who still could
comfort it woman with a bit of his masculine glow.
But Clifford was not like that. His whole race was not like that. They
were all inwardly hard and separate, and warmth to them was just bad
taste. You had to get on without it, and hold your own; which was all
very well if you were of the same class and race. Then you could keep
yourself cold and be very estimable, and hold your own, and enjoy the
satisfaction of holding it. But if you were of another class and
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: And yet - again the mental pendulum swung the other way - she was
not so confident of that as she would like to be. In a general way
there could be no question but that she could count on the loyalty
of those who lived there; but there were always those upon whom one
could never count, those who were dead to all sense of loyalty, and
alive only to selfish gain and interest - a human trait that, all
too unfortunately, was not confined to those alone who lived in that
shadowland outside the law. Her face, beneath the thick veil,
relaxed a little. Well, she certainly did not intend to make a test
case of it and disclose herself there as the White Moll, if she
could help it! She would enter the tenement unnoticed if she could,
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