| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: a mountain streamlet--a group of maidens bathing in a forest
pool--all life-size, and so real that Jurgis thought that it was
some work of enchantment, that he was in a dream palace. Then
his eye passed to the long table in the center of the hall,
a table black as ebony, and gleaming with wrought silver and gold.
In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening
gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing
from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
"This's the dinin' room," observed Master Freddie. "How you like
it, hey, ole sport?"
He always insisted on having an answer to his remarks, leaning
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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: "Shall I show you the eggs?" he said.
"Do!" replied Mrs. Leivers. "They seem SUCH a sign of spring,
and so hopeful."
He put aside the thorns, and took out the eggs, holding them
in the palm of his hand.
"They are quite hot--I think we frightened her off them,"
he said.
"Ay, poor thing!" said Mrs. Leivers.
Miriam could not help touching the eggs, and his hand which,
it seemed to her, cradled them so well.
"Isn't it a strange warmth!" she murmured, to get near him.
Sons and Lovers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: behind him. Retainers brought water in buckets, and rice-bags filled with
pebbles; and they packed the rice-bags round the kneeling man,-- so wedging
him in that he could not move. The master came, and observed the
arrangements. He found them satisfactory, and made no remarks.
Suddenly the condemned man cried out to him:--
"Honored Sir, the fault for which I have been doomed I did not wittingly
commit. It was only my very great stupidity which caused the fault. Having
been born stupid, by reason of my Karma, I could not always help making
mistakes. But to kill a man for being stupid is wrong,-- and that wrong
will be repaid. So surely as you kill me, so surely shall I be avenged; --
out of the resentment that you provoke will come the vengeance; and evil
Kwaidan |
