| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: of life--their place was the little world, the home; that their
power lay not in votes but in influence over men and in making
the minds of their children fine and splendid.
"Women should understand men's affairs, perhaps," said Miss
Garvice, "but to mingle in them is just to sacrifice that power
of influencing they can exercise now."
"There IS something sound in that position," said Capes,
intervening as if to defend Miss Garvice against a possible
attack from Ann Veronica. "It may not be just and so forth, but,
after all, it is how things are. Women are not in the world in
the same sense that men are--fighting individuals in a scramble.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: reiterated his praise; and Edith Wayne, like Madeline and
Florence, was silent. Boyd was politely interested; he was the
kind of man who appeared to care for things as other people cared
for them.
Madeline watched the slow transformation of the changing west,
with its haze of desert dust, through which mountain and cloud
and sun slowly darkened. She watched until her eyes ached, and
scarcely had a thought of what she was watching. When her eyes
shifted to encounter the tall form of Stewart standing motionless
on the rim, her mind became active again. As usual, he stood
apart from the others, and now he seemed aloof and unconscious.
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which friendship lives.
How much it means that I say this to you--
Without these friendships--life, what cauchemar!"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note."
Prufrock/Other Observations |
