| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: very green; but she liked it. When good food is thrown at you by other
people, strange to say, it is very bitter; but whatever you find yourself
is sweet!
When she had finished she dug out another piece, and went to look for a
pantry to put it in. At the top of a heap of rocks up which she clambered
she found that some large stones stood apart but met at the top, making a
room.
"Oh, this is my little home!" she said.
At the top and all round it was closed, only in the front it was open.
There was a beautiful shelf in the wall for the kippersol, and she
scrambled down again. She brought a great bunch of prickly pear, and stuck
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: again, and through whom I am able to picture to myself this brave
love, this jealousy all on fire at a look, these whisperings in the
ear, these joys which create for women, as it were, a new atmosphere,
a new daylight, fresh life! Ah! pet, I too understand love. Don't
weary of telling me everything. Keep faithful to our bond. I promise,
in my turn, to spare you nothing.
Nay--to conclude in all seriousness--I will not conceal from you that,
on reading your letter a second time, I was seized with a dread which
I could not shake off. This superb love seems like a challenge to
Providence. Will not the sovereign master of this earth, Calamity,
take umbrage if no place be left for him at your feast? What mighty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: he said. "Everybody seems to be on our tack to-day."
Sue said she supposed it was because Lent was just over,
when there was always a crowd of marriages. "Let us listen,"
she said, "and find how it feels to us when performed in
a church."
They stepped in, and entered a back seat, and watched the proceedings
at the altar. The contracting couple appeared to belong to the well-to-do
middle class, and the wedding altogether was of ordinary prettiness
and interest. They could see the flowers tremble in the bride's hand,
even at that distance, and could hear her mechanical murmur of words
whose meaning her brain seemed to gather not at all under the pressure
Jude the Obscure |
