| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: A figure moved behind him, and thinking it was still the girl with the broom
Jude took no notice, till the person came close and laid her fingers lightly
upon his bass hand. The imposed hand was a little one he seemed to know,
and he turned.
"Don't stop," said Sue. "I like it. I learnt it before I left Melchester.
They used to play it in the training school."
"I can't strum before you! Play it for me."
"Oh well--I don't mind."
Sue sat down, and her rendering of the piece, though not remarkable,
seemed divine as compared with his own. She, like him, was evidently touched--
to her own surprise--by the recalled air; and when she had finished,
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without
hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It
looked from every star, it smiled in every calm,
breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
I often found myself regretting my own existence,
and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of
being free, I have no doubt but that I should have
killed myself, or done something for which I should
have been killed. While in this state of mind, I was
eager to hear any one speak of slavery. I was a ready
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: majesty has not condescended to say anything about it; but
the time for explanation is come, and I implore your majesty
to tell me if the king has made up his mind on that matter."
Anne of Austria was about to reply, when Mazarin stopped
her.
"The truth, madame," said he -- "in the name of Heaven, the
truth! Do not flatter a dying man with a hope that may prove
vain." There he stopped, a look from Colbert telling him
that he was on a wrong tack.
"I know," said Anne of Austria, taking the cardinal's hand,
"I know that you have generously made, not a little
Ten Years Later |
