| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "You dear old Cheetah, you can't be always frisking about in the
wilderness, staring at the stars."
"But I'm not going back to live in London in the old way, theatres,
dinner-parties, chatter--"
"Oh no! We aren't going to do that sort of thing. We aren't going
to join the ruck. We'll go about in holiday times all over the
world. I want to see Fusiyama. I mean to swim in the South Seas.
With you. We'll dodge the sharks. But all the same we shall have
to have a house in London. We have to be FELT there."
She met his consternation fairly. She lifted her fine eyebrows.
Her little face conveyed a protesting reasonableness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: he asked him if he would venture to marry a couple of strangers
that were both willing. The parson said that Mr.---- had said
something to him of it; that he hoped it was no clandestine
business; that he seemed to be a grave gentleman, and he
supposed madam was not a girl, so that the consent of friends
should be wanted. 'To put you out of doubt of that,' says my
gentleman, 'read this paper'; and out he pulls the license. 'I
am satisfied,' says the minister; 'where is the lady?' 'You
shall see her presently,' says my gentleman.
When he had said thus he comes upstairs, and I was by that
time come out of my room; so he tells me the minister was
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: Mme. D., 'You must be very rich, then!' Why, you don't know that
I spend six or seven thousand francs a month, and that I could
not live without it; you don't know, my poor friend, that I
should ruin you in no time, and that your family would cast you
off if you were to live with a woman like me. Let us be friends,
good friends, but no more. Come and see me, we will laugh and
talk, but don't exaggerate what I am worth, for I am worth very
little. You have a good heart, you want some one to love you, you
are too young and too sensitive to live in a world like mine.
Take a married woman. You see, I speak to you frankly, like a
friend."
Camille |
