| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: hadn't been up there to prevent him--I mean if we had had a smash.
I didn't want him to get out of it."
"But you too--"
"You see I was angry. . . ."
"It's been as good as a switchback," said Amanda after reflection.
"But weren't you a little careless about me, Cheetah?"
"I never thought of you," said Benham, and then as if he felt that
inadequate: "You see--I was so annoyed. It's odd at times how
annoyed one gets. Suddenly when that horse shied I realized what a
beastly business life was--as those brutes up there live it. I want
to clear out the whole hot, dirty, little aimless nest of them. . . ."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: "Oh, don't you be apologetic! It doesn't DO wi' me! You treated her
to the theatre, didn't you?" There was a sarcasm in the last question.
"Well?" laughed Paul uncomfortably.
"Well, and what's an inch of bacon! Take your coat off."
The big, straight-standing woman was trying to estimate
the situation. She moved about the cupboard. Clara took his coat.
The room was very warm and cosy in the lamplight.
"My sirs!" exclaimed Mrs. Radford; "but you two's a pair
of bright beauties, I must say! What's all that get-up for?"
"I believe we don't know," he said, feeling a victim.
"There isn't room in THIS house for two such bobby-dazzlers, if
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: and petrifactions were retailed. It was a pure little isle
of touristry among these solitary hills.
The proprietor was a brave old white-faced Swede. He had
wandered this way, Heaven knows how, and taken up his acres -
I forget how many years ago - all alone, bent double with
sciatica, and with six bits in his pocket and an axe upon his
shoulder. Long, useless years of seafaring had thus
discharged him at the end, penniless and sick. Without doubt
he had tried his luck at the diggings, and got no good from
that; without doubt he had loved the bottle, and lived the
life of Jack ashore. But at the end of these adventures,
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