| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: man like him."
Miss Carmencita thought of one and demurred silently. "I'm sure
this paragon of lovers is at least part of what you say. Does he
love you? But I am sure he couldn't help it."
"Sometimes I think he does, but once--" Frances broke off to ask,
in a pink flame: "How does a lover act?"
Miss Carmencita's laughter rippled up. "Gracious me, have you
never had one before."
"Never."
"Well, he should make verses to you and pretty speeches. He
should sing serenades about undying love under your window.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: These aspects of aerial fighting took the world by surprise.
There had been no foresight to deduce these consequences. If
there had been, the world would have arranged for a Universal
Peace Conference in 1900. But mechanical invention had gone
faster than intellectual and social organisation, and the world,
with its silly old flags, its silly unmeaning tradition of
nationality, its cheap newspapers and cheaper passions and
imperialisms, its base commercial motives and habitual
insincerities and vulgarities, its race lies and conflicts, was
taken by surprise. Once the war began there was no stopping it.
The flimsy fabric of credit that had grown with no man
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: her over a greater extent of the future than that of the young
/emigre/, who was merely following one of the many impulses of his
life as a man; whereas Marie was considering a lifetime, thinking to
make it beautiful, and to fill it with happiness and with grand and
noble sentiments. Happy in such thoughts, more in love with her ideal
than with the actual reality, with the future rather than with the
present, she desired now to return upon her steps so as to better
establish her power. In this she acted instinctively, as all women
act. Having agreed with her soul that she would give herself wholly
up, she wished--if we may so express it--to dispute every fragment of
the gift; she longed to take back from the past all her words and
The Chouans |
