| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: supposed that Mr. Darcy would connect himself with a family
where, to every other objection, would now be added an
alliance and relationship of the nearest kind with a man whom
he so justly scorned.
>From such a connection she could not wonder that he would
shrink. The wish of procuring her regard, which she had
assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational
expectation survive such a blow as this. She was humbled, she
was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what.
She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer
hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when
Pride and Prejudice |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when,
about ten o'clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising,
and they accordingly put in for port. It was a very dark night,
as the moon had not yet risen; they did not land at the harbour,
but, as they had been accustomed, at a creek about two miles below.
He walked on first, carrying a part of the fishing tackle,
and his companions followed him at some distance.
As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against
something and fell at his length on the ground. His companions came
up to assist him, and by the light of their lantern they found that
he had fallen on the body of a man, who was to all appearance dead.
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Yes," answered Violet; "mamma shall see the new little girl. But
she must not make her come into the warm parlor; for, you know,
our little snow-sister will not love the warmth."
And forthwith the children began this great business of making a
snow-image that should run about; while their mother, who was
sitting at the window and overheard some of their talk, could not
help smiling at the gravity with which they set about it. They
really seemed to imagine that there would be no difficulty
whatever in creating a live little girl out of the snow. And, to
say the truth, if miracles are ever to be wrought, it will be by
putting our hands to the work in precisely such a simple and
The Snow Image |
