| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: a dead man--marry her I will, so help me God! I have never
behaved dishonourably to a woman or to any living thing.
I am not a man who wants to save himself at the expense of
the weaker among us!"
"There--never mind him, deary," said she, putting her cheek against Jude's.
"Come up and wash your face, and just put yourself tidy, and off we'll go.
Make it up with Father."
They shook hands. Jude went upstairs with her, and soon came down looking
tidy and calm. Arabella, too, had hastily arranged herself, and accompanied
by Donn away they went.
"Don't go," she said to the guests at parting. I've told
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: lying full-stretched on the ground with his fore paws rubbed the
pests away from eyes and mouth.
But while Slackwater waited for Batard to lift his head, a faint
call came from the quiet air, and a man was seen waving his arms
and running across the flat from Sunrise. It was the store-keeper.
"C-call 'er off, boys," he panted, as he came in among them.
"Little Sandy and Bernadotte's jes' got in," he explained with
returning breath. "Landed down below an' come up by the short cut.
Got the Beaver with 'm. Picked 'm up in his canoe, stuck in a back
channel, with a couple of bullet-holes in 'm. Other buck was Klok
Kutz, the one that knocked spots out of his squaw and dusted."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: by piece all that had befallen him since he went away; and in how
many ways the Lord had prospered him, until they were come
together again.
The old man listened with pleasure and amazement, and with hot
tears said, "Glory to thee, our God, that ever standest by and
succourest them that love thee! Glory to thee, O Christ, King of
all and God all-good, that it was thy pleasure that the seed,
which I sowed in the heart of Ioasaph, thy servant, should thus
bring forth fruit an hundredfold worthy of the husbandman and
Master of our souls! Glory to thee, good Paraclete, the all-holy
Spirit, because thou didst vouchsafe unto this man to partake of
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