| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: it. I should like to know how it affects her,' and so on, as if he
supposed we were constantly in each other's society."
"Let me see the letter."
"Oh, no."
"Have you answered it?"
"No."
"Let me see the letter."
"No, and again, no."
"Then play the Impromptu for me."
"It is growing late; what time do you have to be home?"
"Time doesn't concern me. Your question seems a little rude.
Awakening & Selected Short Stories |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: freezing hands into his sleeves.
Nikita did not reply.
'Now then, friend, stir yourself!' he shouted to the horse, but
in spite of the shake of the reins Mukhorty moved only at a
walk.
The snow in places was up to his knees, and the sledge moved by
fits and starts with his every movement.
Nikita took the whip that hung over the front of the sledge and
struck him once. The good horse, unused to the whip, sprang
forward and moved at a trot, but immediately fell back into an
amble and then to a walk. So they went on for five minutes.
Master and Man |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: through the trees of the boulevard. Two days in succession--
this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the boulevard,
changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue Monsieur.
This caused Eponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing
which she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented
herself with watching him on his passage along the boulevard
without ever seeking to encounter him. It was only on the evening
before that she had attempted to address him.
So Eponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact.
She saw him displace the bar and slip into the garden.
She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other,
Les Miserables |
