| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: turned; she took up this rag; she squeezed that tube. But all she did
was to ward him off a moment. He made it impossible for her to do
anything. For if she gave him the least chance, if he saw her
disengaged a moment, looking his way a moment, he would be on her,
saying, as he had said last night, "You find us much changed." Last
night he had got up and stopped before her, and said that. Dumb and
staring though they had all sat, the six children whom they used to
call after the Kings and Queens of England--the Red, the Fair, the
Wicked, the Ruthless--she felt how they raged under it. Kind old Mrs
Beckwith said something sensible. But it was a house full of unrelated
passions--she had felt that all the evening. And on top of this chaos
To the Lighthouse |
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: rooms, and other sleeping and living apartments, in all some
ten rooms on this floor. The windows of the back rooms
overlooked an enormous court, which formed the center of
the square made by the buildings which faced the four
contiguous streets, and which was now given over to the
quartering of the various animals belonging to the warriors
occupying the adjoining buildings.
While the court was entirely overgrown with the yellow,
moss-like vegetation which blankets practically the entire
surface of Mars, yet numerous fountains, statuary, benches,
and pergola-like contraptions bore witness to the beauty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Good Dictys, too, who had come in, entreated him. 'Remember
that he is my brother. Remember how I have brought you up,
and trained you as my own son, and spare him for my sake.'
Then Perseus lowered his hand; and Polydectes, who had been
trembling all this while like a coward, because he knew that
he was in the wrong, let Perseus and his mother pass.
Perseus took his mother to the temple of Athene, and there
the priestess made her one of the temple-sweepers; for there
they knew she would be safe, and not even Polydectes would
dare to drag her away from the altar. And there Perseus, and
the good Dictys, and his wife, came to visit her every day;
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