| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: have more sense of responsibility toward your broth-
er, your only brother, Annie," he said, in his deep
pulpit voice.
"It was after two o'clock when you went out,"
said Imogen.
"And all you had to do was the dinner-dishes, and
there were very few to-day," said Jane.
Then Annie turned with a quick, cat-like motion.
Her eyes blazed under her brown toss of hair. She
gesticulated with her little, nervous hands. Her
voice was as sweet and intense as a reed, and withal
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: and our love of truth fearless--the time was not ripe for us!
Our ideas were fifty years too soon to be any good to us.
And so the resistance they met with brought reaction in her,
and recklessness and ruin on me! ... There--this, Mrs. Edlin,
is how I go on to myself continually, as I lie here. I must be boring
you awfully."
"Not at all, my dear boy. I could hearken to 'ee all day."
As Jude reflected more and more on her news, and grew more restless,
he began in his mental agony to use terribly profane language
about social conventions, which started a fit of coughing.
Presently there came a knock at the door downstairs. As nobody
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: slices of the original man, they hang about men and embrace them, and they
are themselves the best of boys and youths, because they have the most
manly nature. Some indeed assert that they are shameless, but this is not
true; for they do not act thus from any want of shame, but because they are
valiant and manly, and have a manly countenance, and they embrace that
which is like them. And these when they grow up become our statesmen, and
these only, which is a great proof of the truth of what I am saving. When
they reach manhood they are lovers of youth, and are not naturally inclined
to marry or beget children,--if at all, they do so only in obedience to the
law; but they are satisfied if they may be allowed to live with one another
unwedded; and such a nature is prone to love and ready to return love,
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