| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: had it until she came into the room and then she knew instantly by the
way some man looked at her. Yes, tonight she had it, tremendously; she
knew that by the way Mr Ramsay told her not to be a fool. She sat
beside him, smiling.
It must have happened then, thought Mrs Ramsay; they are engaged. And
for a moment she felt what she had never expected to feel again--
jealousy. liked these girls, these golden-reddish girls, with something
flying, something a little wild and harum-scarum about them, who didn't
"scrape their hair off," weren't, as he said about poor Lily Briscoe,
"skimpy". There was some quality which she herself had not, some
lustre, some richness, which attracted him, amused him, led him to make
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: consented, and the play remained, as it now ap-
pears, in an unfinished condition. He had al-
ready felt doubtful whether "it was a thing God
would approve," Art for Art's sake having in his
eyes no right to existence. For this reason a
didactic tendency is increasingly evident in these
later stories. "After the Ball" gives a painful
picture of Russian military cruelty; "The Forged
Coupon" traces the cancerous growth of evil,
and demonstrates with dramatic force the cumu-
lative misery resulting from one apparently trivial
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: friends, we must have patience."
This pacific utterance only served to intensify the anger of
Vasili. Said he: "Peter is forever repeating the same old story,
'It is a sin to kill any one.' Certainly it is sinful to murder;
but we should consider the kind of man we are dealing with. We
all know it is wrong to kill a good man, but even God would take
away the life of such a dog as he is. It is our duty, if we have
any love for mankind, to shoot a dog that is mad. It is a sin to
let him live. If, therefore, we are to suffer at all, let it be
in the interests of the people--and they will thank us for it.
If we remain quiet any longer a flogging will be our only reward.
The Kreutzer Sonata |
