| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black,
distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy
ironshod boots. Underground grey faces, whites of eyes rolling, necks
cringing from the pit roof, shoulders Out of shape. Men! Men! Alas, in
some ways patient and good men. In other ways, non-existent. Something
that men SHOULD have was bred and killed out of them. Yet they were
men. They begot children. One might bear a child to them. Terrible,
terrible thought! They were good and kindly. But they were only half,
Only the grey half of a human being. As yet, they were 'good'. But even
that was the goodness of their halfness. Supposing the dead in them
ever rose up! But no, it was too terrible to think of. Connie was
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: GARDINER.
No, not alone, my Lords; my mind is troubled;
I know your honours muse wherefore I sent,
And in such haste. What, came you from the King?
NORFOLK.
We did, and left none but Lord Cromwell with him.
GARDINER.
O, what a dangerous time is this we live in!
There's Thomas Wolsey, he's already gone,
And Thomas More, he followed after him:
Another Thomas yet there doth remain,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: its favour.
It was not without some sacrifices that the English-speaking
peoples were permitted the satisfaction of hearing their speech
used universally. The language was shorn of a number of
grammatical peculiarities, the distinctive forms for the
subjunctive mood for example and most of its irregular plurals
were abolished; its spelling was systematised and adapted to the
vowel sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process
of incorporating foreign nouns and verbs commenced that speedily
reached enormous proportions. Within ten years from the
establishment of the World Republic the New English Dictionary
The Last War: A World Set Free |
