| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: She did not know I was going to her house that very night,
for she was too insensible to understand me. If she
had only come to see me! I longed that she would.
But it was not to be."
There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering
sighs which used to shake her like a pestilent blast.
She had not yet told.
But Yeobright was too deeply absorbed in the ramblings
incidental to his remorseful state to notice her.
During his illness he had been continually talking thus.
Despair had been added to his original grief by the
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: nice."
"Yes," said Em.
"Your cousin, now," said Gregory in an aimless sort of way--"I suppose
she's shut up in her room writing letters."
"No," said Em.
"Gone for a drive, I expect? Nice morning for a drive."
"No."
"Gone to see the ostriches, I suppose?"
"No." After a little silence Em added, "I saw her go by the kraals to the
kopje."
Gregory crossed and uncrossed his legs.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: Then how can he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all
time and all existence, think much of human life?
He cannot.
Or can such an one account death fearful?
No indeed.
Then the cowardly and mean nature has no part in true philosophy?
Certainly not.
Or again: can he who is harmoniously constituted, who is not covetous or
mean, or a boaster, or a coward--can he, I say, ever be unjust or hard in
his dealings?
Impossible.
The Republic |
