| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: up, I believe, in genuine anxiety as to what might happen to my
youthful insignificance. If I hadn't been rather on the alert just
then I wouldn't even have perceived the meaning. But really an
allusion to 'hot Southern blood' I could have only one meaning. Of
course I laughed at it, but only 'pour l'honneur' and to show I
understood perfectly. In reality it left me completely
indifferent."
Dona Rita looked very serious for a minute.
"Indifferent to the whole conversation?"
I looked at her angrily.
"To the whole . . . You see I got up rather out of sorts this
The Arrow of Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: up again immediately he was alone. All the time, as he went about,
he cried mechanically. His mind and hands were busy. He cried,
he did not know why. It was his blood weeping. He was just as much
alone whether he was with Clara or with the men in the White Horse.
Just himself and this pressure inside him, that was all that existed.
He read sometimes. He had to keep his mind occupied. And Clara was a
way of occupying his mind.
On the Saturday Walter Morel went to Sheffield. He was
a forlorn figure, looking rather as if nobody owned him.
Paul ran upstairs.
"My father's come," he said, kissing his mother.
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the hearts and minds of the people of Lutha? Still, there
was a bare possibility that the American would be as good
as his word, and return the crown as he had promised.
Though he hated to admit it, the king had every reason to
believe that the impostor was a man of honor, whose bare
word was as good as another's bond.
He was commencing, under this line of reasoning, to
achieve a certain hopeful content when the door to his prison
opened and Peter of Blentz, black and scowling, entered.
At his elbow was Captain Ernst Maenck.
"Leopold has defeated the Austrians," announced the
The Mad King |
