| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: trouble to disguise than they might have done at home. Sue, in her
new summer clothes, flexible and light as a bird, her little thumb
stuck up by the stem of her white cotton sunshade, went along as if she
hardly touched ground, and as if a moderately strong puff of wind would
float her over the hedge into the next field. Jude, in his light grey
holiday-suit, was really proud of her companionship, not more for her
external attractiveness than for her sympathetic words and ways.
That complete mutual understanding, in which every glance and movement
was as effectual as speech for conveying intelligence between them,
made them almost the two parts of a single whole.
The pair with their charge passed through the turnstiles,
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: day a thousand comedies represented all round us full of thousands
of inaccuracies and absurdities, and, for all that, they have a
successful run, and are listened to not only with applause, but with
admiration and all the rest of it? Go on, boy, and don't mind; for
so long as I fill my pouch, no matter if I show as many inaccuracies
as there are motes in a sunbeam."
"True enough," said Don Quixote; and the boy went on: "See what a
numerous and glittering crowd of horsemen issues from the city in
pursuit of the two faithful lovers, what a blowing of trumpets there
is, what sounding of horns, what beating of drums and tabors; I fear
me they will overtake them and bring them back tied to the tail of
Don Quixote |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: bushy eyebrows.] Do you always really understand what you say, sir?
LORD GORING. [After some hesitation.] Yes, father, if I listen
attentively.
LORD CAVERSHAM. [Indignantly.] If you listen attentively! . . .
Conceited young puppy!
[Goes off grumbling into the smoking-room. PHIPPS enters.]
LORD GORING. Phipps, there is a lady coming to see me this evening
on particular business. Show her into the drawing-room when she
arrives. You understand?
PHIPPS. Yes, my lord.
LORD GORING. It is a matter of the gravest importance, Phipps.
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