| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: leaf, even the white palings, even the stars, were conspirators too. So
bright was the moon that the flowers were bright as by day; the shadow of
the nasturtiums, exquisite lily-like leaves and wide-open flowers, lay
across the silvery veranda. The manuka-tree, bent by the southerly winds,
was like a bird on one leg stretching out a wing.
But when Beryl looked at the bush, it seemed to her the bush was sad.
"We are dumb trees, reaching up in the night, imploring we know not what,"
said the sorrowful bush.
It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always
sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and
it's as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: contest--more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he
was. He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he
would not strike: he would only wrestle. At last he mastered her
arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her:
with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair. The
operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most
convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:
he looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.
"That is MY WIFE," said he. "Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am
ever to know--such are the endearments which are to solace my
leisure hours! And THIS is what I wished to have" (laying his hand
Jane Eyre |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: about ten drops of it in his drink. But remember, all this is told you
because I gather from your questions that you mean to be a purchaser.
You must keep faith with me?"
"Very well--I don't mind a bottle--to give some friend or other to try
it on her young man." She produced five shillings, the price asked,
and slipped the phial in her capacious bosom. Saying presently that she
was due at an appointment with her husband she sauntered away towards
the refreshment bar, Jude, his companion, and the child having gone
on to the horticultural tent, where Arabella caught a glimpse of them
standing before a group of roses in bloom.
She waited a few minutes observing them, and then proceeded to join her spouse
Jude the Obscure |
