| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "At this time, in this place, from a man like you--Yes, it is
right."
Lingard thought that woman wonderfully true to him and
wonderfully fearless with herself. The necessity to take back the
two captives to the stockade was so clear and unavoidable now,
that he believed nothing on earth could have stopped him from
doing so, but where was there another woman in the world who
would have taken it like this? And he reflected that in truth and
courage there is found wisdom. It seemed to him that till Mrs.
Travers came to stand by his side he had never known what truth
and courage and wisdom were. With his eyes on her face and having
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: They loathed him.
Arthur was so inflamed and irritable at last, that when he
won a scholarship for the Grammar School in Nottingham, his mother
decided to let him live in town, with one of her sisters, and only
come home at week-ends.
Annie was still a junior teacher in the Board-school, earning
about four shillings a week. But soon she would have fifteen shillings,
since she had passed her examination, and there would be financial
peace in the house.
Mrs. Morel clung now to Paul. He was quiet and not brilliant.
But still he stuck to his painting, and still he stuck to his mother.
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.
Many a battle have I won in France
Whenas the enemy hath been ten to one;
Why should I not now have the like success?
[Alarum. Exeunt.]
SCENE III. Plains near Sandal Castle.
[Alarums. Enter RUTLAND and his TUTOR]
RUTLAND.
Ah! whither shall I fly to scape their hands?
Ah, tutor! look where bloody Clifford comes.
[Enter CLIFFORD and Soldiers.]
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