| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: be detected in himself. And on both sides Norris irritated and
offended him. He thought his son a fool, and he suspected that
his son returned the compliment with interest. The history of
their relation was simple; they met seldom, they quarrelled
often. To his mother, a fiery, pungent, practical woman,
already disappointed in her husband and her elder son, Norris
was only a fresh disappointment.
Yet the lad's faults were no great matter; he was diffident,
placable, passive, unambitious, unenterprising; life did not
much attract him; he watched it like a curious and dull
exhibition, not much amused, and not tempted in the least to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: when he had nearly got to sleep, something had bitten him suddenly
and sent him mad. He sat up and looked at the room in the darkness,
his feet doubled under him, perfectly motionless, listening. He heard
a cat somewhere away outside; then the heavy, poised tread
of the mother; then Clara's distinct voice:
"Will you unfasten my dress?"
There was silence for some time. At last the mother said:
"Now then! aren't you coming up?"
"No, not yet," replied the daughter calmly.
"Oh, very well then! If it's not late enough, stop a bit longer.
Only you needn't come waking me up when I've got to sleep."
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: For glory by that king of Babylon
Who made himself so great that God, who heard,
Covered him with long feathers, like a bird.
Again, he may have gone down easily,
By comfortable altitudes, and found,
As always, underneath him solid ground
Whereon to be sufficient and to stand
Possessed already of the promised land,
Far stretched and fair to see:
A good sight, verily,
And one to make the eyes of her who bore him
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