| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: thirst for the inedit."
Dora Forbes lifted his bushy brows. "Miss Collop?"
"Guy Walsingham, your distinguished confrere - or shall I say your
formidable rival?"
"Oh!" growled Dora Forbes. Then he added: "Shall I spoil it if I
go in?"
"I should think nothing could spoil it!" I ambiguously laughed.
Dora Forbes evidently felt the dilemma; he gave an irritated crook
to his moustache. "SHALL I go in?" he presently asked.
We looked at each other hard a moment; then I expressed something
bitter that was in me, expressed it in an infernal "Do!" After
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: by her cousin's sudden access of audacity.
"Then, where did you find this?" inquired Cecile, as she looked
closely at the trinket.
"In the Rue de Lappe. A dealer in second-hand furniture there had just
brought it back with him from a chateau that is being pulled down near
Dreux, Aulnay. Mme. de Pompadour used to spend part of her time there
before she built Menars. Some of the most splendid wood-carving ever
known has been saved from destruction; Lienard (our most famous living
wood-carver) had kept a couple of oval frames for models, as the /ne
plus ultra/ of the art, so fine it is.--There were treasures in that
place. My man found the fan in the drawer of an inlaid what-not, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: I belong to the common people."
"But if anyone else said so, my son, wouldn't you be in a tear.
YOU know you consider yourself equal to any gentleman."
"In myself," he answered, "not in my class or my education
or my manners. But in myself I am."
"Very well, then. Then why talk about the common people?"
"Because--the difference between people isn't in their class,
but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas,
and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates
and loves."
"It's all very well, my boy. But, then, why don't you go
Sons and Lovers |
