| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: However, as the moment for the girl's setting out drew
nigh, when the first excitement of the dressing had
passed off, a slight misgiving found place in Joan
Durbeyfield's mind. It prompted the matron to say that
she would walk a little way--as far as to the point
where the acclivity from the valley began its first
steep ascent to the outer world. At the top Tess was
going to be met with the spring-cart sent by the
Stoke-d'Urbervilles, and her box had already been
wheeled ahead towards this summit by a lad with trucks,
to be in readiness.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: in Acton's thoughts before, she was now never out of them.
From the first she had been personally fascinating;
but the fascination now had become intellectual as well.
He was constantly pondering her words and motions; they were
as interesting as the factors in an algebraic problem.
This is saying a good deal; for Acton was extremely fond
of mathematics. He asked himself whether it could be
that he was in love with her, and then hoped he was not;
hoped it not so much for his own sake as for that of the amatory
passion itself. If this was love, love had been overrated.
Love was a poetic impulse, and his own state of feeling with regard
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: its head heavily into the heavy earth: thus is it with the man who cannot
yet fly.
Heavy unto him are earth and life, and so WILLETH the spirit of gravity!
But he who would become light, and be a bird, must love himself:--thus do
_I_ teach.
Not, to be sure, with the love of the sick and infected, for with them
stinketh even self-love!
One must learn to love oneself--thus do I teach--with a wholesome and
healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving
about.
Such roving about christeneth itself "brotherly love"; with these words
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
