| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: The sappy billets on the waning fire,
And laughs to see the sudden lightening scare
His children at their play, and yet, - the spring is in the air;
Already the slim crocus stirs the snow,
And soon yon blanched fields will bloom again
With nodding cowslips for some lad to mow,
For with the first warm kisses of the rain
The winter's icy sorrow breaks to tears,
And the brown thrushes mate, and with bright eyes the rabbit peers
From the dark warren where the fir-cones lie,
And treads one snowdrop under foot, and runs
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: door on them; and, Lily Briscoe and Mr Bankes, looking uneasily up into
the sky, observed that the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with
his gun had settled on the tops of the elm trees.
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"And even if it isn't fine tomorrow," said Mrs Ramsay, raising her eyes
to glance at William Bankes and Lily Briscoe as they passed, "it will be
another day. And now," she said, thinking that Lily's charm was her
Chinese eyes, aslant in her white, puckered little face, but it would take
a clever man to see it, "and now stand up, and let me measure your leg,"
for they might go to the Lighthouse after all, and she must see if the
stocking did not need to be an inch or two longer in the leg.
To the Lighthouse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Told her you were sick in a hospital and wouldn't be out for a
year!" she said triumphantly. "And when she said she thought she'd
come in and wait for you, I slammed the door on her."
"What time was she here?"
"Late last night. And she had a light-haired man across the street.
If she thought I didn't see him, she don't know me." Then she
closed the door and left me to my bath and my reflections.
At five minutes before eight I was at the Incubator, where I found
Hotchkiss and McKnight. They were bending over a table, on which
lay McKnight's total armament - a pair of pistols, an elephant gun
and an old cavalry saber.
The Man in Lower Ten |
