| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: Nanine had already opened the door.
"Has Prudence come?" said Marguerite.
"No, madame."
"Say that she is to be admitted as soon as she comes. But first
put out the lamp in the drawing-room, and if any one comes, say
that I have not come back and shall not be coming back."
She was like a woman who is preoccupied with something, and
perhaps annoyed by an unwelcome guest. I did not know what to do
or say. Marguerite went toward her bedroom; I remained where I
was.
"Come," she said.
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: kept him, and his love turned back into her, so that he could not
be free to go forward with his own life, really love another woman.
At this period, unknowingly, he resisted his mother's influence.
He did not tell her things; there was a distance between them.
Clara was happy, almost sure of him. She felt she had at last
got him for herself; and then again came the uncertainty. He told
her jestingly of the affair with her husband. Her colour came up,
her grey eyes flashed.
"That's him to a 'T'," she cried--"like a navvy! He's not fit
for mixing with decent folk."
"Yet you married him," he said.
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: and he moved his head about in a dull and wandering way, like a
person who had been stunned. Presently he said, "I shall feel
better when I get to bed; I have been overwrought today;
yes, and overworked for many days."
"Then I'll leave you and let you get to your rest.
Good night, old man." But as Tom went out he couldn't deny himself
a small parting gibe: "Don't take it so hard; a body can't win
every time; you'll hang somebody yet."
Wilson muttered to himself, "It is no lie to say I am sorry
I have to begin with you, miserable dog though you are!"
He braced himself up with a glass of cold whisky, and went
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