| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: ease in their Manners and address which could not fail of
pleasing--. Imagine my dear Madam how delighted I must have been
in beholding as I did, how attentively they observed every object
they saw, how disgusted with some Things, how enchanted with
others, how astonished at all! On the whole however they
returned in raptures with the World, its Inhabitants, and
Manners.
Yrs Ever--A. F.
LETTER the SECOND
From a YOUNG LADY crossed in Love to her freind
Why should this last disappointment hang so heavily on my
Love and Friendship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Chapter 1
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build
up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard
work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or
scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many
skies have fallen.
This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position. The war had
brought the roof down over her head. And she had realized that one must
live and learn.
She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Here is Morland and I come to stay a few days with you,
so you must look out for a couple of good beds
somewhere near." And this address seemed to satisfy all
the fondest wishes of the mother's heart, for she received
him with the most delighted and exulting affection.
On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion
of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them
how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
These manners did not please Catherine;
but he was James's friend and Isabella's brother;
and her judgment was further bought off by Isabella's
Northanger Abbey |
