| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: a time; always was connected with horses, a clever fellow that way.
Then some Indian colonel took a fancy to him, and he was made a
lieutenant. Yes, they gave him a commission. I believe he went back to
India with his colonel, and up to the north-west frontier. He was ill;
he was a pension. He didn't come out of the army till last year, I
believe, and then, naturally, it isn't easy for a man like that to get
back to his own level. He's bound to flounder. But he does his duty all
right, as far as I'm concerned. Only I'm not having any of the
Lieutenant Mellors touch.'
'How could they make him an officer when he speaks broad Derbyshire?'
'He doesn't...except by fits and starts. He can speak perfectly well,
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: commend her to Douglas Widgery.
Meanwhile Dangle, his face golden in the evening sun, was driving
(as well as he could) a large, black horse harnessed into a thing
called a gig, northwestward towards Winchester. Dangle, barring
his swollen eye, was a refined-looking little man, and be wore a
deerstalker cap and was dressed in dark grey. His neck was long
and slender. Perhaps you know what gigs are, --huge, big, wooden
things and very high and the horse, too, was huge and big and
high, with knobby legs, a long face, a hard mouth, and a whacking
trick of pacing. Smack, smack, smack, smack it went along the
road, and hard by the church it shied vigorously at a hooded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: 2,000,000 pounds, which was a most unusual fortune for a king to
possess in those days. Columbus's great achievement gave him the
discovery-fever, and he sent Sebastian Cabot to the New World to
search out some foreign territory for England. That is Cabot's
ship up there in the corner. This was the first time that
England went far abroad to enlarge her estate--but not the last.
Henry VIII.; thirty-eight RED squares. (Fig. 24.)
That is Henry VIII. suppressing a monastery in his arrogant fashion.
Edward VI.; six squares of YELLOW paper. (Fig. 25.)
He is the last Edward to date. It is indicated by that
thing over his head, which is a LAST--shoemaker's last.
What is Man? |
