| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: world to be knocked over by a game of chess, because too
ephemeral-looking to play one.
'Are you taking notes?' she inquired with an alacrity plainly
arising less from interest in the subject than from a wish to
divert his thoughts from herself.
'Yes; I was making an entry. And with your permission I will
complete it.' Knight then stood still and wrote. Elfride remained
beside him a moment, and afterwards walked on.
'I should like to see all the secrets that are in that book,' she
gaily flung back to him over her shoulder.
'I don't think you would find much to interest you.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Flossie came running with her tail lifted. And Connie had to plod
dumbly across into the wood, knowing he was standing there watching
her, with that incomprehensible grin on his face.
She walked home very much downcast and annoyed. She didn't at all like
his saying he had been made use of because, in a sense, it was true.
But he oughtn't to have said it. Therefore, again, she was divided
between two feelings: resentment against him, and a desire to make it
up with him.
She passed a very uneasy and irritated tea-time, and at once went up to
her room. But when she was there it was no good; she could neither sit
nor stand. She would have to do something about it. She would have to
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: one another more than we envy all the world besides; and--which is our
worst failing--who, in private and public intercourse alike, are torn
by dissension and are caught in a maze of litigation, and prefer to
make capital out of our neighbour's difficulties rather than to render
natural assistance? To make our conduct consistent, indeed, we treat
our national interests no better than if they were the concerns of
some foreign state; we make them bones of contention to wrangle over,
and rejoice in nothing so much as in possessing means and ability to
indulge these tastes. From this hotbed is engendered in the state a
spirit of blind folly[24] and cowardice, and in the hearts of the
citizens spreads a tangle of hatred and mutual hostility which, as I
The Memorabilia |
