| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: you help me? I am in trouble.'"
"How did she know your Christian name?" said Mrs. Yeobright
doubtingly.
"I had met her as a lad before I went away in this trade.
She asked then if she might ride, and then down she fell
in a faint. I picked her up and put her in, and there
she has been ever since. She has cried a good deal,
but she has hardly spoke; all she has told me being
that she was to have been married this morning.
I tried to get her to eat something, but she couldn't;
and at last she fell asleep."
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: whose company Marguerite had lived.
Then we called on Julie Duprat, who told us the sad incident
which she had witnessed, shedding real tears at the remembrance
of her friend.
Lastly, we went to Marguerite's grave, on which the first rays of
the April sun were bringing the first leaves into bud.
One duty remained to Armand--to return to his father. He wished
me to accompany him.
We arrived at C., where I saw M. Duval, such as I had imagined
him from the portrait his son had made of him, tall, dignified,
kindly.
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: with Helen.
"Draughts," he said, erecting the collar of his coat.
"You are still rheumatic?" asked Helen. Her voice was low
and seductive, though she spoke absently enough, the sight
of town and river being still present to her mind.
"Once rheumatic, always rheumatic, I fear," he replied. "To some
extent it depends on the weather, though not so much as people
are apt to think."
"One does not die of it, at any rate," said Helen.
"As a general rule--no," said Mr. Pepper.
"Soup, Uncle Ridley?" asked Rachel.
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