| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: in these things; it is the whim of a dying woman.?
Then she embraced me with tears and added:
"I can speak, but I am stifled when I speak; I am stifling. Air!"
I burst into tears, opened the window, and a few minutes
afterward the priest entered. I went up to him; when he knew
where he was, he seemed afraid of being badly received.
"Come in boldly, father," I said to him.
He stayed a very short time in the room, and when he came out he
said to me:
"She lived a sinner, and she will die a Christian."
A few minutes afterward he returned with a choir boy bearing a
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: replied Lan-O.
"But none ever survives?" queried Tara. "And if a woman?"
"No stranger within the gates of Manator ever has survived ten
games," replied the slave girl. "They are permitted to offer
themselves into perpetual slavery if they prefer that to fighting
at jetan. Of course they may be called upon, as any warrior, to
take part in a game, but their chances then of surviving are
increased, since they may never again have the chance of winning
to liberty."
"But a woman," insisted Tara; "how may a woman win her freedom?"
Lan-O laughed. "Very simply," she cried. derisively. "She has but
The Chessmen of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: to do!" said Jude. "A creature I have fed with my own hands."
"Don't be such a tender-hearted fool! There's the sticking-knife--
the one with the point. Now whatever you do, don't stick un
too deep."
"I'll stick him effectually, so as to make short work of it.
That's the chief thing."
"You must not!" she cried. "The meat must be well bled,
and to do that he must die slow. We shall lose a shilling a score
if the meat is red and bloody! Just touch the vein, that's all.
I was brought up to it, and I know. Every good butcher keeps
un bleeding long. He ought to be eight or ten minutes dying,
Jude the Obscure |
