| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: he spoke of her. Much good may such love do him! I shall ever despise the
man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire,
nor solicited the avowal of. I shall always detest them both. He can have
no true regard for me, or he would not have listened to her; and SHE, with
her little rebellious heart and indelicate feelings, to throw herself into
the protection of a young man with whom she has scarcely ever exchanged two
words before! I am equally confounded at HER impudence and HIS credulity.
How dared he believe what she told him in my disfavour! Ought he not to
have felt assured that I must have unanswerable motives for all that I had
done? Where was his reliance on my sense and goodness then? Where the
resentment which true love would have dictated against the person defaming
Lady Susan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: stranger should come near.'
'No wall so high but it may be climbed at last, and no wood
so thick but it may be crawled through; no serpent so wary
but he may be charmed, or witch-queen so fierce but spells
may soothe her; and I may yet win the golden fleece, if a
wise maiden help bold men.'
And he looked at Medeia cunningly, and held her with his
glittering eye, till she blushed and trembled, and said -
'Who can face the fire of the bulls' breath, and fight ten
thousand armed men?'
'He whom you help,' said Jason, flattering her, 'for your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: Natalie married.
"Bordeaux shall know that you have ceded eleven hundred thousand
francs to your daughter, and that you still have twenty-five thousand
francs a year left," whispered Solonet to his client. "For my part, I
did not expect to obtain such a fine result."
"But," she said, "explain to me why the creation of this entail should
have calmed the storm at once."
"It relieves their distrust of you and your daughter. An entail is
unchangeable; neither husband nor wife can touch that capital."
"Then this arrangement is positively insulting!"
"No; we call it simply precaution. The old fellow has caught you in a
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