| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: had absolutely no money. Plate, jewels, shawls, everything is in
pawn; the rest is sold or seized. Marguerite is still conscious
of what goes on around her, and she suffers in body, mind, and
heart. Big tears trickle down her cheeks, so thin and pale that
you would never recognise the face of her whom you loved so much,
if you could see her. She has made me promise to write to you
when she can no longer write, and I write before her. She turns
her eyes toward me, but she no longer sees me; her eyes are
already veiled by the coming of death; yet she smiles, and all
her thoughts, all her soul are yours, I am sure.
Every time the door opens her eyes brighten, and she thinks you
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: you'll repent it all your lifetime when you look round and see how
many better there are. Take my word for it, you will.'
'Well, mother, do be quiet! - I hate to be lectured! - I'm not
going to marry yet, I tell you; but - dear me! mayn't I enjoy
myself at all?'
'Yes, my dear boy, but not in that way. Indeed, you shouldn't do
such things. You would be wronging the girl, if she were what she
ought to be; but I assure you she is as artful a little hussy as
anybody need wish to see; and you'll got entangled in her snares
before you know where you are. And if you marry her, Gilbert,
you'll break my heart - so there's an end of it.'
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: from whom nothing should be hid might speak, then, beauty would roll
itself up; the space would fill; those empty flourishes would form into
shape; if they shouted loud enough Mrs Ramsay would return. "Mrs
Ramsay!" she said aloud, "Mrs Ramsay!" The tears ran down her face.
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[Macalister's boy took one of the fish and cut a square out of its side
to bait his hook with. The mutilated body (it was alive still) was
thrown back into the sea.]
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"Mrs Ramsay!" Lily cried, "Mrs Ramsay!" But nothing happened. The pain
increased. That anguish could reduce one to such a pitch of
To the Lighthouse |
