| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Philip was getting into a dangerous mood with his
sentimentalism. No lawful passion can ever be so bewildering or
ecstatic as an unlawful one. For that which is right has all
the powers of the universe on its side, and can afford to wait;
but the wrong, having all those vast forces against it, must
hurry to its fulfilment, reserve nothing, concentrate all its
ecstasies upon to-day. Malbone, greedy of emotion, was drinking
to the dregs a passion that could have no to-morrow.
Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined
emotion must be ennobling. This is not true of men like
Malbone, voluptuaries of the heart. He ordinarily got up a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: comfortably. It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till
she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad
restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason. And she
was getting thinner.
It was just restlessness. She would rush off across the park, abandon
Clifford, and lie prone in the bracken. To get away from the
house...she must get away from the house and everybody. The work was
her one refuge, her sanctuary.
But it was not really a refuge, a sanctuary, because she had no
connexion with it. It was only a place where she could get away from
the rest. She never really touched the spirit of the wood itself...if
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the
wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
NEH 12:39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate,
and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of
Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
NEH 12:40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the
house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
NEH 12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
NEH 12:42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and
Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud,
King James Bible |
