| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: "but I quite agree with my father in thinking a sailor might be
a very desirable tenant. I have known a good deal of the profession;
and besides their liberality, they are so neat and careful
in all their ways! These valuable pictures of yours, Sir Walter,
if you chose to leave them, would be perfectly safe. Everything in
and about the house would be taken such excellent care of!
The gardens and shrubberies would be kept in almost as high order
as they are now. You need not be afraid, Miss Elliot, of your own
sweet flower gardens being neglected."
"As to all that," rejoined Sir Walter coolly, "supposing I were induced
to let my house, I have by no means made up my mind as to the privileges
Persuasion |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: It was a large, square room, with a big staircase at
the end, which separated and went off to right and left,
half-way up its visible course. Its floor was of
inlaid woods, old and uneven from long use, and carpeted
here and there by the skins of tigers and leopards.
There were many other suggestions of the chase about
the room: riding boots, whips, spurs, and some stands
of archaic weapons caught the eye at various points;
the heads of foxes and deer peeped out on the blackened
panels of the walls, from among clusters of hooks crowded
with coats, hats, and mackintoshes. At the right,
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: and for us to begin over again our last year's life!
Fool that I am! I can scarcely hold the pen with which I write to
you of this wild dream of my heart.
Whatever happens, I loved you well, Armand, and I would have died
long ago if I had not had the memory of your love to help me and
a sort of vague hope of seeing you beside me again.
February 4.
The Comte de G. has returned. His mistress has been unfaithful to
him. He is very sad; he was very fond of her. He came to tell me
all about it. The poor fellow is in rather a bad way as to money;
all the same, he has paid my bailiff and sent away the man.
Camille |
