| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: auditory background of urgency and distress.
"Ann Veronica," he said, "I tell you this is love. I love the
soles of your feet. I love your very breath. I have tried not to
tell you--tried to be simply your friend. It is no good. I want
you. I worship you. I would do anything--I would give anything
to make you mine. . . . Do you hear me? Do you hear what I am
saying? . . . Love!"
He held her arm and abandoned it again at her quick defensive
movement. For a long time neither spoke again.
She sat drawn together in her chair in the corner of the box, at
a loss what to say or do--afraid, curious, perplexed. It seemed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: over in his mind the difficulty of trying to treat young American girls
like rational human beings.
But Henri understood. He had had a French mother, and there is a leaven
of French blood in the American temperament, old Huguenot, some of it.
So Americans love beauty and obey their impulses and find life good to
do things rather than to be something or other more or less important.
And so Henri could quite understand how Sara Lee had forgotten herself
when Mr. Travers could not. And he understood, also, when Sara Lee,
having composed the little dondey's quiet figure, straightened up with
tears in her eyes.
"It was very dear of you to come out," she said. "And-of course it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: gods he called upon them to lead him to the schalischim, because he
wished to confide to him something on which their safety depended.
They paused, some asserting that it was right to summon Matho. He was
sent for.
Hanno fell upon the grass; and he saw around him other crosses also,
as though the torture by which he was about to perish had been
multiplied beforehand; he made efforts to convince himself that he was
mistaken, that there was only one, and even to believe that there were
none at all. At last he was lifted up.
"Speak!" said Matho.
He offered to give up Hamilcar; then they would enter Carthage and
Salammbo |
