| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: wandering an instant; pray proceed."
"He became at length," continued Ratcliffe, "the most ingenious
self-tormentor of whom I have ever heard; the scoff of the
rabble, and the sneer of the yet more brutal vulgar of his own
rank, was to him agony and breaking on the wheel. He regarded
the laugh of the common people whom he passed on the street, and
the suppressed titter, or yet more offensive terror, of the young
girls to whom he was introduced in company, as proofs of the true
sense which the world entertained of him, as a prodigy unfit to
be received among them on the usual terms of society, and as
vindicating the wisdom of his purpose in withdrawing himself from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: began to think of putting an end to him; but the ass, who saw that
some mischief was in the wind, took himself slyly off, and began his
journey towards the great city, 'For there,' thought he, 'I may turn
musician.'
After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the
roadside and panting as if he were tired. 'What makes you pant so, my
friend?' said the ass. 'Alas!' said the dog, 'my master was going to
knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer
make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do
to earn my livelihood?' 'Hark ye!' said the ass, 'I am going to the
great city to turn musician: suppose you go with me, and try what you
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: say it was a crown at the bottom of a wallet. Thereupon Pasquerette
opened her eyes and then bent her head slightly to look at her flesh,
which was white and firm, and she brought herself to life by a box on
the ears, administered to the captain.
"That will teach you to beware of the dead," said she, smiling.
"And why did he kill you, my cousin?" asked the shepherd.
"Why? Tomorrow the bailiffs seize everything that's here, and he who
has no more money than virtue, reproached me because I wished to be
agreeable to a handsome gentlemen, who would save me from the hands of
justice.
"Pasquerette, I'll break every bone in your skin."
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
