| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: She had fastened it inside with a piece of string, which broke
at his pull. There being no bedstead she had flung down some rugs
and made a little nest for herself in the very cramped quarters
the closet afforded.
When he looked in upon her she sprang out of her lair,
great-eyed and trembling.
"You ought not to have pulled open the door!" she cried excitedly.
"It is not becoming in you! Oh, will you go away; please will you!"
She looked so pitiful and pleading in her white nightgown
against the shadowy lumber-hole that he was quite worried.
She continued to beseech him not to disturb her.
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: a boon
to him who lauds thee.
Give to thy praisers: let not fortune fail us. Loud may we
speak, with
brave men, in the assembly.
HYMN XII. Indra.
1. HE who, just born, chief God of lofty spirit by power and
might
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: niece to Prince Polignac. The next was Lady Emily de Burgh, the
daughter of the Marchioness of Clanricarde, a beautiful girl of
seventeen. She is very lovely, wears a Grecian braid round her head
like a coronet, and always sits by her mother, which would not suit
our young girls. Then came Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Ebrington,
and so many titled personages that I cannot remember half.
The dinner is much the same as ours in all its modes of serving, but
they have soles and turbot, instead of our fishes, and their
pheasants are not our pheasants, or their partridges our partridges.
Neither have we so many footmen with liveries of all colours, or so
much gold and silver plate. . . . The next morning Mr. Bancroft
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