| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: joking, half seriously, this idea that maternal anxieties are a
delusion; that it is not worth while to sacrifice one's life to
children. When one is young, it is necessary to enjoy life. So
she occupied herself less with the children, not with the same
intensity as formerly, and paid more and more attention to
herself, to her face,--although she concealed it,--to her
pleasures, and even to her perfection from the worldly point of
view. She began to devote herself passionately to the piano,
which had formerly stood forgotten in the corner. There, at the
piano, began the adventure.
"The MAN appeared."
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise.
He could not any longer delay his departure; but as his journey to
London might be followed, even sooner than he now conjectured, by
his longer voyage, he entreated me to bestow as much of my society
on him as I could spare. He besought me, therefore, to leave my
solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed
southwards together. This letter in a degree recalled me to life,
and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.
Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I
shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments,
and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: over them, and she had to lie down there under the boughs of the tree,
like an animal, while he waited, standing there in his shirt and
breeches, watching her with haunted eyes. But still he was
provident--he made her lie properly, properly. Yet he broke the band of
her underclothes, for she did not help him, only lay inert.
He too had bared the front part of his body and she felt his naked
flesh against her as he came into her. For a moment he was still inside
her, turgid there and quivering. Then as he began to move, in the
sudden helpless orgasm, there awoke in her new strange thrills rippling
inside her. Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping
of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance,
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
