| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: The truth is, since I have been mixed up with Havens and Dodd
in the design to publish the latter's narrative, I seem to feel no
want for Carthew's society. Of course I am wholly modern in
sentiment, and think nothing more noble than to publish
people's private affairs at so much a line. They like it, and if
they don't, they ought to. But a still small voice keeps telling
me they will not like it always, and perhaps not always stand it.
Memory besides supplies me with the face of a pressman (in
the sacred phrase) who proved altogether too modern for one of
his neighbours, and
Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: The man who sold thy father is alive.
GUIDO
Sold! was my father sold?
MORANZONE
Ay! trafficked for,
Like a vile chattel, for a price betrayed,
Bartered and bargained for in privy market
By one whom he had held his perfect friend,
One he had trusted, one he had well loved,
One whom by ties of kindness he had bound -
GUIDO
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: stump--a ghastly sight! Don't you think so, Jane?"
"It is a pity to see it; and a pity to see your eyes--and the scar
of fire on your forehead: and the worst of it is, one is in danger
of loving you too well for all this; and making too much of you."
"I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my
cicatrised visage."
"Did you? Don't tell me so--lest I should say something disparaging
to your judgment. Now, let me leave you an instant, to make a
better fire, and have the hearth swept up. Can you tell when there
is a good fire?"
"Yes; with the right eye I see a glow--a ruddy haze."
Jane Eyre |
