| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: too bad."
We laughed and bade her farewell.
As the car slowed down at my companion's hotel, the footman slid
off the front seat and opened the door. I got up and out of the
car. As I turned, I saw the girl pick up her gloves and leave
the precious bag on the seat.
"My dear, your bag- "
But, as she got out, the bag left the seat with her. By the
lights in the car I saw that it was attached to a chain about her
neck; and the chain lay beneath her dress. I handed her out
thoughtfully.
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'If you know this doctor,' I ventured to remark, after a
somewhat awful pause, 'I should gather that you do not share
the landlord's good opinion.'
Fettes paid no regard to me.
'Yes,' he said, with sudden decision, 'I must see him face to
face.'
There was another pause, and then a door was closed rather
sharply on the first floor, and a step was heard upon the
stair.
'That's the doctor,' cried the landlord. 'Look sharp, and
you can catch him.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: drawing-room steps and back again. She must rest for a moment. And,
resting, looking from one to the other vaguely, the old question which
traversed the sky of the soul perpetually, the vast, the general
question which was apt to particularise itself at such moments as
these, when she released faculties that had been on the strain, stood
over her, paused over her, darkened over her. What is the meaning of
life? That was all--a simple question; one that tended to close in on
one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great
revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there struck unexpectedly
in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other; herself and
Charles Tansley and the breaking wave; Mrs Ramsay bringing them
To the Lighthouse |
