| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: waves in little splashes, as if someone had gone along and the light
had spilled from her pail as she walked.
The breakers ran down the shore in long, hoarse strokes.
Tiny seagulls, like specks of spray, wheeled above the line of surf.
Their crying seemed larger than they. Far away the coast reached out,
and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink
to a level with the beach. Mablethorpe was tiny on their right.
They had alone the space of all this level shore, the sea, and the
upcoming sun, the faint noise of the waters, the sharp crying of
the gulls.
They had a warm hollow in the sandhills where the wind did
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: frankness which came most readily to him in the presence
of this American lady, herself so outspoken and masterful.
"I don't know that I specially doubt it," she replied.
"I suppose any man has in him the makings of what is called
a good husband--if the conditions are sufficiently propitious."
"Well then--what's the matter with the conditions?"
he demanded, jocosely.
Miss Madden shrugged her shoulders slightly. Thorpe noted
the somewhat luxuriant curves of these splendid shoulders,
and the creamy whiteness of the skin, upon which,
round the full throat, a chain of diamonds lay as upon
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: to be quite unconcerned. He merely held out his sword to the nearest
attendant, who, with a wooden dipper, poured water over the blade from haft
to point, and then carefully wiped the steel several times with sheets of
soft paper... And thus ended the ceremonial part of the incident.
For months thereafter, the retainers and the domestics lived in ceaseless
fear of ghostly visitation. None of them doubted that the promised
vengeance would come; and their constant terror caused them to hear and to
see much that did not exist. They became afraid of the sound of the wind in
the bamboos,-- afraid even of the stirring of shadows in the garden. At
last, after taking counsel together, they decided to petition their master
to have a Segaki-service (2) performed on behalf of the vengeful spirit.
Kwaidan |
