| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: He knew what they were saying and thinking. "I am very, very sorry,
Father and Mother," he said. "But please don't mind!--I can't help it.
I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn't keep on thinking they'd
be all withered in a few days!"
VI
THE unnoticed lives that the pair had hitherto led began,
from the day of the suspended wedding onwards, to be observed
and discussed by other persons than Arabella. The society of
Spring Street and the neighbourhood generally did not understand,
and probably could not have been made to understand,
Sue and Jude's private minds, emotions, positions, and fears.
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly
proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their
divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve
them.
But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye. If you are
an entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads
for hours, and never discover that organ. The ear has no external
leaf whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a
quill, so wondrously minute is it. It is lodged a little behind the
eye. With respect to their ears, this important difference is to be
observed between the sperm whale and the right. While the ear of
Moby Dick |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the thought of freedom from me at once. As it was I
hastened on toward the right searching for an exit toward
which no Sagoths were fleeing, and at last I found it--a low,
narrow aperture leading into a dark corridor.
Without thought of the possible consequence, I darted into
the shadows of the tunnel, feeling my way along through
the gloom for some distance. The noises of the amphitheater
had grown fainter and fainter until now all was as silent
as the tomb about me. Faint light filtered from above
through occasional ventilating and lighting tubes, but it
was scarce sufficient to enable my human eyes to cope with
At the Earth's Core |
