| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: motor car filled with gay parties returning from the theaters. He
glimpsed young women in furs, wrapped from the cruelty of life by
the caste system in which wealth had incased them. Once a ripple
of merry laughter floated to him across the gulf that separated
this girl from them.
A year ago her laughter had been light as theirs. Life had been a
thing beautiful, full of color. She had come to it eagerly, like a
lover, glad because it was so good.
But it had not been good to her. By the cluster lights he could
see how fearfully it had mauled her, how cruelly its irony had
kissed hollows in her young cheeks. All the bloom of her was gone,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: she said in conclusion, closing the casement.
"Ay, ay, mistress; we will." they replied, and moved
away.
That night at Coggan's, Gabriel Oak, beneath the
screen of closed eyelids, was busy with fancies, and full
of movement, like a river flowing rapidly under its ice.
Night had always been the time at which he saw Bath-
sheba most vividly, and through the slow hours of
shadow he tenderly regarded her image now. It is
rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compen-
sate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Now hast thou brought the truth.' And they slaughtered her, though
they came near leaving it undone.
When too ye slew a soul and disputed thereupon, and God brought
forth that which ye had hidden, then we said, 'Strike him with part of
her.' Thus God brings the dead to life and shows you His signs, that
haply ye may understand.
Yet were your hearts hardened even after that, till they were as
stones or harder still, for verily of stones are some from which
streams burst forth, and of them there are some that burst asunder and
the water issues out, and of them there are some that fall down for
fear of God; but God is never careless of what ye do.
The Koran |
