| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: thick darkness."
He seemed to be almost unaware of her as a person: she was
only to him then a woman. She was afraid.
He stood against a pine-tree trunk and took her in his arms.
She relinquished herself to him, but it was a sacrifice in which she
felt something of horror. This thick-voiced, oblivious man was
a stranger to her.
Later it began to rain. The pine-trees smelled very strong.
Paul lay with his head on the ground, on the dead pine needles,
listening to the sharp hiss of the rain--a steady, keen noise.
His heart was down, very heavy. Now he realised that she had
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and
applied the words, `fire,' `milk,' `bread,' and `wood.' I learned also the
names of the cottagers themselves. The youth and his companion had each
of them several names, but the old man had only one, which was `father.'
The girl was called `sister' or `Agatha,' and the youth `Felix,' `brother,'
or `son.' I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas
appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.
I distinguished several other words without being able as yet to understand
or apply them, such as `good,' `dearest,' `unhappy.'
"I spent the winter in this manner. The gentle manners and beauty
of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy,
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: and I do not know what Danforth would have done. While we were
gone, Pabodie, Sherman, Ropes, McTighe, and Williamson had worked
like beavers over Lake’s two best planes, fitting them again for
use despite the altogether unaccountable juggling of their operative
mechanism.
We decided to load all the planes the next morning
and start back for our old base as soon as possible. Even though
indirect, that was the safest way to work toward McMurdo Sound;
for a straightline flight across the most utterly unknown stretches
of the aeon-dead continent would involve many additional hazards.
Further exploration was hardly feasible in view of our tragic
At the Mountains of Madness |
