| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: look for it. He hastily scanned the ditch and after
walking about ten yards along it, found the hat among the
leaves. Gabriel took it in his hand and returned to his
hut. Here he ensconced himself, and peeped through
the loophole in the direction of the riders approach.
She came up and looked around -- then on the other
side of the hedge. Gabriel was about to advance and
restore the missing article when an unexpected per-
formance induced him to suspend the action for the
present. The path, after passing the cowshed, bisected
the plantation. It was not a bridle-path -- merely a
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: men. . . ."
"But you were not always thus shut up? Your health . . . ?"
"Ah," she answered, "we used to walk, but it was at night and in the
country, by the side of the Seine, away from people."
"Are you not proud of being loved like that?"
"No," she said, "no longer. However full it be, this hidden life is
but darkness in comparison with the light."
"What do you call the light?"
"Thee, my lovely Adolphe! Thee, for whom I would give my life. All the
passionate things that have been told me, and that I have inspired, I
feel for thee! For a certain time I understood nothing of existence,
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: he meant to make for the visitors; another bed in the master's room
for the ladies and a cot for the gentleman to be hung in the room
opposite where - where Mr. Walter - here he gave a scared look all
round - Mr. Walter - had died.
"Very good," assented Renouard in an even undertone. "And remember
what you have to say of him."
"Yes, master. Only" - he wriggled slightly and put one bare foot
on the other for a moment in apologetic embarrassment - "only I - I
- don't like to say it."
Renouard looked at him without anger, without any sort of
expression. "Frightened of the dead? Eh? Well - all right. I
Within the Tides |
