| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: and comfort.''
``The swine turned Normans to my comfort!''
quoth Gurth; ``expound that to me, Wamba, for
my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to
read riddles.''
``Why, how call you those grunting brutes running
about on their four legs?'' demanded Wamba.
``Swine, fool, swine,'' said the herd, ``every fool knows that.''
``And swine is good Saxon,'' said the Jester;
``but how call you the sow when she is flayed,
and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels,
Ivanhoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: men, all with different interests, were spellbound by the brilliant
eloquence that flowed at boiling heat from the heart and soul of this
ambitious spirit. Admiration silenced reflection. Only one thing was
clear--the thing which Albert wished to get into their heads:
Was it not far better for the town to have one of those men who are
born to govern society at large than a mere voting-machine? A
statesman carries power with him. A commonplace deputy, however
incorruptible, is but a conscience. What a glory for Provence to have
found a Mirabeau, to return the only statesman since 1830 that the
revolution of July had produced!
Under the pressure of this eloquence, all the audience believed it
Albert Savarus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: their conversation, and the physician, wearied, perhaps, of
administering comfort to one who would not be comforted, signed
to one of his retinue.
"Hassan," he said, "hast thou nothing wherewith to beguile the
way?"
Hassan, story-teller and poet by profession, spurred up, upon
this summons, to exercise his calling. "Lord of the palace of
life," he said, addressing the physician, "thou, before whom the
angel Azrael spreadeth his wings for flight--thou, wiser than
Solimaun Ben Daoud, upon whose signet was inscribed the REAL NAME
which controls the spirits of the elements--forbid it, Heaven,
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