The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: disintegrated life. If lack of sex is going to disintegrate you, then
go out and have a love-affair. If lack of a child is going to
disintegrate you, then have a child if you possibly can. But only do
these things so that you have an integrated life, that makes a long
harmonious thing. And you and I can do that together...don't you
think?...if we adapt ourselves to the necessities, and at the same time
weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived
life. Don't you agree?'
Connie was a little overwhelmed by his words. She knew he was right
theoretically. But when she actually touched her steadily-lived life
with him she...hesitated. Was it actually her destiny to go on weaving
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And if ye divorce them before ye have touched them, but have already
settled for them a settlement; the half of what ye have settled,
unless they remit it, or he in whose hand is the marriage tie remits
it; and that ye should remit is nearer to piety, and forget not
liberality between you. Verily, God on what ye do doth look.
Observe the prayers, and the middle prayer, and stand ye attent
before God.
And if ye fear, then afoot or on horseback; but when ye are in
safety remember God, how He taught you while yet ye did not know.
Those of you who die and leave wives, should bequeath to their wives
maintenance for a year, without expulsion (from their home); but if
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: rarely let him out of their sight, Andrea had not fallen in love with
a cousin at the age of eleven, or seduced his mother's maid by the
time he was twelve; he had not studied at school, where a lad does not
learn only, or best, the subjects prescribed by the State; he had
lived in Paris but a few years, and he was still open to those sudden
but deep impressions against which French education and manners are so
strong a protection. In southern lands a great passion is often born
of a glance. A gentleman of Gascony who had tempered strong feelings
by much reflection had fortified himself by many little recipes
against sudden apoplexies of taste and heart, and he advised the Count
to indulge at least once a month in a wild orgy to avert those storms
Gambara |