| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: anxiously.
He stopped, and stared hard at her. "I now see straight," he said
slowly.
"What does that mean?"
He continued to wipe the blood from his forehead. He looked
troubled. "Henceforward, as long as I live, I shall fight with my
nature, and refuse to feel pleasure. And I advise you to do the
same."
Spadevil gazed at him sternly. "Do you renounce my teaching?"
Maskull, however, returned the gaze without dismay. Spadevil's
image-like clearness of form had departed for him; his frowning face
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Youth is fiery, age is frosty;
You bring back the days departed,
You bring back my youth of passion,
And the beautiful Wenonah!"
Many days they talked together,
Questioned, listened, waited, answered;
Much the mighty Mudjekeewis
Boasted of his ancient prowess,
Of his perilous adventures,
His indomitable courage,
His invulnerable body.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: kiosk and looking at the lawyer in his room, the day after Albert's
interview with the Abbe, who had reported the result to her father. "I
would have committed any mortal sin, and you will not enter the
Wattevilles' drawing-room; I may not hear your fine voice! You make
conditions when your help is required by the Wattevilles and the
Rupts!--Well, God knows, I meant to be content with these small joys;
with seeing you, hearing you speak, going with you to les Rouxey, that
your presence might to me make the place sacred. That was all I asked.
But now--now I mean to be your wife.--Yes, yes; look at /her/
portrait, at /her/ drawing-room, /her/ bedroom, at the four sides of
/her/ villa, the points of view from /her/ gardens. You expect her
Albert Savarus |
