| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: him, and I wasn't far wrong."
"What about it?" said Gatsby politely. "I guess your friend Walter Chase
wasn't too proud to come in on it."
"And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for
a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject
of YOU."
"He came to us dead broke. He was very glad to pick up some money, old
sport."
"Don't you call me 'old sport'!" cried Tom. Gatsby said nothing.
"Walter could have you up on the betting laws too, but Wolfshiem scared
him into shutting his mouth."
The Great Gatsby |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: nearer to her.
'I didn't want to say anything in the lane,' she went on, 'in case there's
a mike hidden there. I don't suppose there is, but there could be. There's
always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice. We're all
right here.'
He still had not the courage to approach her. 'We're all right here?'
he repeated stupidly.
'Yes. Look at the trees.' They were small ashes, which at some time had
been cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest of poles, none of
them thicker than one's wrist. 'There's nothing big enough to hide a mike
in. Besides, I've been here before.'
1984 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: attend particularly to those feelings in his elected bride to
which many men of more sentiment, experience, and reflection
would, in all probability, have been equally indifferent. He
knew what all accounted the principal point, that her parents and
friends, namely, were decidedly in his favour, and that there
existed most powerful reasons for their predilection.
In truth, the conduct of the Marquis of A----, since
Ravenswood's departure, had been such as almost to bar the
possibility of his kinsman's union with Lucy Ashton. The Marquis
was Ravenswood's sincere but misjudging friend; or rather, like
many friends and patrons, he consulted what he considered to be
The Bride of Lammermoor |
