| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: 'Night-walking amuses him, then,' I remarked, affecting a careless
manner: in reality as surprised as she was, and anxious to
ascertain the truth of her statement; for to see the master looking
glad would not be an every-day spectacle. I framed an excuse to go
in. Heathcliff stood at the open door; he was pale, and he
trembled: yet, certainly, he had a strange joyful glitter in his
eyes, that altered the aspect of his whole face.
'Will you have some breakfast?' I said. 'You must be hungry,
rambling about all night!' I wanted to discover where he had been,
but I did not like to ask directly.
'No, I'm not hungry,' he answered, averting his head, and speaking
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: bounding away from me through the undergrowth. Then he turned
and stared at me again. His eyes shone brightly out of the dusk
under the trees.
My heart was in my mouth; but I felt my only chance was bluff,
and walked steadily towards him. He turned again, and vanished
into the dusk. Once more I thought I caught the glint of his eyes,
and that was all.
For the first time I realised how the lateness of the hour
might affect me. The sun had set some minutes since, the swift
dusk of the tropics was already fading out of the eastern sky,
and a pioneer moth fluttered silently by my head. Unless I would
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: her husband himself, whom Janet, though distrusting him more than
the Countess did, believed incapable of being accessory to the
base and desperate means which his dependants, from whose power
the lady was now escaping, might resort to, in order to stifle
her complaints of the treatment she had received at their hands.
But at the worst, and were the Earl himself to deny her justice
and protection, still at Kenilworth, if she chose to make her
wrongs public, the Countess might have Tressilian for her
advocate, and the Queen for her judge; for so much Janet had
learned in her short conference with Wayland. She was,
therefore, on the whole, reconciled to her lady's proposal of
Kenilworth |
