| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: Before she was fifteen the great struggle of her life began. Dr.
Govindurajulu Naidu, now her husband, is, though of an old and
honourable family, not a Brahmin. The difference of caste roused
an equal opposition, not only on the side of her family, but of
his; and in 1895 she was sent to England, against her will, with
a special scholarship from the Nizam. She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898, studying first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton. She returned to Hyderabad in September 1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr. Naidu. "Do you know
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: worship, as the woman who made him think of the future with joy: she
would be his wife, and would make home lovely to him, as his
father's home had never been; and it would be easy, when she was
always near, to shake off those foolish habits that were no
pleasures, but only a feverish way of annulling vacancy. Godfrey's
was an essentially domestic nature, bred up in a home where the
hearth had no smiles, and where the daily habits were not chastised
by the presence of household order. His easy disposition made him
fall in unresistingly with the family courses, but the need of some
tender permanent affection, the longing for some influence that
would make the good he preferred easy to pursue, caused the
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: I have removed, the work of the Silky Epeira. The colour and
softness of the material are the same in both cases; but the shape
is quite different. The stolen object is a globe; the object
presented in exchange is an elliptical conoid studded with angular
projections along the edge of the base. The Spider takes no
account of this dissimilarity. She promptly glues the queer bag to
her spinnerets and is as pleased as though she were in possession
of her real pill. My experimental villainies have no other
consequences beyond an ephemeral carting. When hatching-time
arrives, early in the case of the Lycosa, late in that of the
Epeira, the gulled Spider abandons the strange bag and pays it no
The Life of the Spider |
