| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: soul faints in him.' And so Money sends back its answer into
the depths through you, Kirby! Very clear the answer, too!--I
think I remember reading the same words somewhere: washing your
hands in Eau de Cologne, and saying, 'I am innocent of the blood
of this man. See ye to it!'"
Kirby flushed angrily.
"You quote Scripture freely."
"Do I not quote correctly? I think I remember another line,
which may amend my meaning? 'Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of
the least of these, ye did it unto me.' Deist? Bless you, man,
I was raised on the milk of the Word. Now, Doctor, the pocket
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one
does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation,
or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's
meaning are the usual rewards of candour. Not three in three
thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you
have just done. But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast
in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours:
Nature did it. And then, after all, I go too fast in my
conclusions: for what I yet know, you may be no better than the
rest; you may have intolerable defects to counterbalance your few
good points."
Jane Eyre |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: disappeared.
There was a hideous screaming which echoed above
even the hill noises and the dogs' barking on the night Wilbur
was born, but no known doctor or midwife presided at his coming.
Neighbours knew nothing of him till a week afterward, when Old
Wateley drove his sleigh through the snow into Dunwich Village
and discoursed incoherently to the group of loungers at Osborne's
general store. There seemed to be a change in the old man - an
added element of furtiveness in the clouded brain which subtly
transformed him from an object to a subject of fear - though he
was not one to be perturbed by any common family event. Amidst
The Dunwich Horror |
