| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: "Can't you trust us, mother?"
"Whether I can or not, I won't do it. You can stay till eleven
if you like, and I can read."
"Go to bed, Gyp," he said to his girl. "We won't keep
mater waiting."
"Annie has left the candle burning, Lily," said Mrs. Morel;
"I think you will see."
"Yes, thank you. Good-night, Mrs. Morel."
William kissed his sweetheart at the foot of the stairs,
and she went. He returned to the kitchen.
"Can't you trust us, mother?" he repeated, rather offended.
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: newspapers wrote about his performance in very flattering terms.
Indeed, the Court Gazette called him a triumph of Pylotechnic art."
"Pyrotechnic, Pyrotechnic, you mean," said a Bengal Light; "I know
it is Pyrotechnic, for I saw it written on my own canister."
"Well, I said Pylotechnic," answered the Rocket, in a severe tone
of voice, and the Bengal Light felt so crushed that he began at
once to bully the little squibs, in order to show that he was still
a person of some importance.
"I was saying," continued the Rocket, "I was saying - What was I
saying?"
"You were talking about yourself," replied the Roman Candle.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: she is, and thou hast the harvest out of thine own report.
BOULT.
I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of
eels as my giving out her Beauty stir up the lewdly-inclined.
I'll bring home some to-night.
BAWD.
Come your ways; follow me.
MARINA.
If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
Diana, aid my purpose!
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