| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: to let them know that he did not find marriage particularly blissful
would imply his conversion to their (probably) earlier disapproval.
It would be as bad as letting Carp, and Brasenose generally,
know how backward he was in organizing the matter for his
"Key to all Mythologies." All through his life Mr. Casaubon had been
trying not to admit even to himself the inward sores of self-doubt
and jealousy. And on the most delicate of all personal subjects,
the habit of proud suspicious reticence told doubly.
Thus Mr. Casaubon remained proudly, bitterly silent. But he
had forbidden Will to come to Lowick Manor, and he was mentally
preparing other measures of frustration.
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the fight, faint echoes of which had reached his prison
cell. He told me that the air patrol had captured him before
he reached the high tower of the palace, so that he had not
even seen Sab Than.
We discovered that it would be futile to attempt to cut
away the bars and chains which held him prisoner, so, at his
suggestion I returned to search the bodies on the floor above
for keys to open the padlocks of his cell and of his chains.
Fortunately among the first I examined I found his jailer,
and soon we had Kantos Kan with us in the throne room.
The sounds of heavy firing, mingled with shouts and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: will let it go the best way I can get it. I am now within two
pages of the end of Chapter XXV., which is the last chapter, the
end with its gathering up of loose threads, being the dedication to
Low, and addressed to him: this is my last and best expedient for
the knotting up of these loose cards. 'Tis possible I may not get
that finished in time, in which case you'll receive only Chapters
XXII. to XXV. by this mail, which is all that can be required for
illustration.
I wish you would send me MEMOIRS OF BARON MARBOT (French);
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE, Strong,
Logeman & Wheeler; PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY, William James; Morris
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