| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: expect he'll never. But yu' saw just now how it was between us.
We were not a bit like a temperance meetin'."
She could not help laughing at the twist he gave to his voice.
And she felt happiness warming her; for in the Virginian's tone
about Trampas was something now that no longer excluded her. Thus
he began his gradual recital, in a cadence always easy, and more
and more musical with the native accent of the South. With the
light turn he gave it, its pure ugliness melted into charm.
"No, he don't think anything of me. Once a man in the John Day
Valley didn't think much, and by Canada de Oro I met another. It
will always be so here and there, but Trampas beats 'em all. For
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: What through the universe in leaves is scattered;
Substance, and accident, and their operations,
All interfused together in such wise
That what I speak of is one simple light.
The universal fashion of this knot
Methinks I saw, since more abundantly
In saying this I feel that I rejoice.
One moment is more lethargy to me,
Than five and twenty centuries to the emprise
That startled Neptune with the shade of Argo!
My mind in this wise wholly in suspense,
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: defensive. So it was almost with tears in her eyes that she
answered desperately:
'My meaning is, that I like earrings best just now, because I lost
one of my prettiest pair last year, and papa said he would not buy
any more, or allow me to myself, because I was careless; and now I
wish I had some like them--that's what my meaning is--indeed it
is, Mr. Knight.'
'I am afraid I have been very harsh and rude,' said Knight, with a
look of regret at seeing how disturbed she was. 'But seriously,
if women only knew how they ruin their good looks by such
appurtenances, I am sure they would never want them.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
