| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: one now."
On consideration they decided to close with this offer, and drew
up and shared with the shepherd and his mother the boiled bacon
and greens for supper.
"I rather like this," said Sue, while their entertainers were clearing
away the dishes. "Outside all laws except gravitation and germination."
"You only think you like it; you don't: you are quite a product
of civilization," said Jude, a recollection of her engagement
reviving his soreness a little.
"Indeed I am not, Jude. I like reading and all that, but I crave
to get back to the life of my infancy and its freedom."
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: when I ought to be going to my church, and tearing my hair off my head,
and my gown off my back!"
Jude was exasperated, and went out to drag her in by main force.
Then he suddenly lost his heat. Illuminated with the sense that all
was over between them, and that it mattered not what she did, or he,
her husband stood still, regarding her. Their lives were ruined,
he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union:
that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which
had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong
comradeship tolerable.
"Going to ill-use me on principle, as your father ill-used
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired wanderers weep.
To her father white
Came the maiden bright;
But his loving look,
Like the holy book,
All her tender limbs with terror shook.
Ona, pale and weak,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
