| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea
of its being possible for a man like that to die like this!
When I think how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine!
Father Madeleine! Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so.
He wouldn't believe me. Well! Here's a pretty trick to play!
He is dead, that good man, the very best man out of all the good
God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In the first place,
I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After having
done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men,
if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he
manage to enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all.
Les Miserables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: thrones, greedily devouring dainties, and quaffing deep
draughts of wine. The work had not yet gone any further. O, no,
indeed. The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see
the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the
gormandizers.
"As for yourself, valiant sir," said Circe, "judging by the
dignity of your aspect, I take you to be nothing less than a
king. Deign to follow me, and you shall be treated as befits
your rank."
So Ulysses followed her into the oval saloon, where his two and
twenty comrades had devoured the banquet, which ended so
Tanglewood Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: he caught a glimpse of the girl, at a table with two other girls at the
far end of the room. She appeared not to have seen him, and he did not
look in that direction again.
The afternoon was more bearable. Immediately after lunch there arrived a
delicate, difficult piece of work which would take several hours and
necessitated putting everything else aside. It consisted in falsifying a
series of production reports of two years ago, in such a way as to cast
discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party, who was now under a
cloud. This was the kind of thing that Winston was good at, and for more
than two hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind
altogether. Then the memory of her face came back, and with it a raging,
1984 |
