| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: Arabella began shaking with suppressed laughter. "What is this, my dear?"
he asked, smacking his lips.
"Oh--a drop of wine--and something in it." Laughing again she said:
"I poured your own love-philtre into it, that you sold me at the
agricultural show, don't you re-member?"
"I do, I do! Clever woman! But you must be prepared for the consequences."
Putting his arm round her shoulders he kissed her there and then.
"Don't don't," she whispered, laughing good-humouredly. "My man will hear."
She let him out of the house, and as she went back she said
to herself: "Well! Weak women must provide for a rainy day.
And if my poor fellow upstairs do go off--as I suppose he will soon--
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: told me your story. You are honest. You have never told me you
loved me."
She waited, saying to herself that he had never given her time, that
he had never asked her! And that, in truth, she did not know!
I am inclined to believe that she did not. As abundance of
experience is not precisely her lot in life, a woman is seldom an
expert in matters of sentiment. It is the man who can and generally
does "see himself" pretty well inside and out. Women's self-
possession is an outward thing; inwardly they flutter, perhaps
because they are, or they feel themselves to be, engaged. All this
speaking generally. In Flora de Barral's particular case ever since
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: gold. He took in his hand grains and flakes and one or
two pieces large as beans. It was royal monopoly, gold, and
every man under strict command--to bring to the Admiral
all that was found. Seamen and companions gathered
around him, Admiral, Viceroy and Governor, King Croesus
to be, a tenth of all gold and spoil filling his purse! And
they, too, surely some way they would be largely paid! The
dream hovered, then descended upon us, as many a time it
descended. Great riches and happiness and all clothed in
silk, and every man as he would be and not as he was, a
dim magnificence and a sense of trumpets in the air, acclaiming
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