| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: rot; rescued from the pool of Time that was fast closing over them now
a basin, now a cupboard; fetched up from oblivion all the Waverley
novels and a tea-set one morning; in the afternoon restored to sun and
air a brass fender and a set of steel fire-irons. George, Mrs Bast's
son, caught the rats, and cut the grass. They had the builders.
Attended with the creaking of hinges and the screeching of bolts, the
slamming and banging of damp-swollen woodwork, some rusty laborious
birth seemed to be taking place, as the women, stooping, rising,
groaning, singing, slapped and slammed, upstairs now, now down in the
cellars. Oh, they said, the work!
They drank their tea in the bedroom sometimes, or in the study;
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And casts on earth his latest gleam.
But see! the Tramps with jaded eye
Their destined provinces espy.
Long through the hills their way they took,
Long camped beside the mountain brook;
'Tis over; now with rising hope
They pause upon the downward slope,
And as their aching bones they rest,
Their anxious captain scans the west.
So paused Alaric on the Alps
And ciphered up the Roman scalps.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: sit down here ten years from now independent
landowners, not struggling farmers any longer.
The chance that father was always looking for
has come."
Lou was pacing the floor. "But how do you
KNOW that land is going to go up enough to pay
the mortgages and--"
"And make us rich besides?" Alexandra put
in firmly. "I can't explain that, Lou. You'll
O Pioneers! |
