| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: "Marriage," said Mrs. Hilbery, coming into the room, and nodding her
head once or twice, "I always say marriage is a school. And you don't
get the prizes unless you go to school. Charlotte has won all the
prizes," she added, giving her sister-in-law a little pat, which made
Lady Otway more uncomfortable still. She half laughed, muttered
something, and ended on a sigh.
"Aunt Charlotte was saying that it's no good being married unless you
submit to your husband," said Katharine, framing her aunt's words into
a far more definite shape than they had really worn; and when she
spoke thus she did not appear at all old-fashioned. Lady Otway looked
at her and paused for a moment.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: one here in these squalid dens of lath and plaster ever imagines.
I am a great poet; I do not write my poems, I feel them, and act
them. At this moment I have fifty thousand francs, which might
possibly buy forty negroes. I want two hundred thousand francs,
because I want to have two hundred negroes to carry out my
notions of the patriarachal life properly. Negroes, you see, are
like a sort of family ready grown, and there are no inquisitive
public prosecutors out there to interfere with you. That
investment in ebony ought to mean three or four million francs
in ten years' time. If I am successful, no one will ask me who I
am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: in the hope of enriching themselves with Saracen spoil,
which they called fighting the battles of God. Richard, who was
not remarkably scrupulous in his financial operations,
was not likely to overlook the lands and castle of Locksley,
which he appropriated immediately to his own purposes, and sold
to the highest bidder. Now, as the repeal of the outlawry would
involve the restitution of the estates to the rightful owner,
it was obvious that it could never be expected from that
most legitimate and most Christian king, Richard the First
of England, the arch-crusader and anti-jacobin by excellence,--
the very type, flower, cream, pink, symbol, and mirror
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