| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: after the manner of lovers (there are poets who feel, and poets who
express; the first are the happiest), Auguste had tasted all these
early joys, so vast, so fecund. SHE possessed the most winning organ
that the most artful woman of the world could have desired in order to
deceive at her ease; /she/ had that silvery voice which is soft to the
ear, and ringing only for the heart which it stirs and troubles,
caresses and subjugates.
And this woman went by night to the rue Soly through the rue Pagevin!
and her furtive apparition in an infamous house had just destroyed the
grandest of passions! The vidame's logic triumphed.
"If she is betraying her husband we will avenge ourselves," said
Ferragus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: my head and pressed the hair upon my neck--he had a way of playing
with my air; and then he said: 'To-morrow, Phaedo, I suppose that
these fair locks of yours will be severed.'"
It is also said that, seeing Anytus[55] pass by, Socrates remarked:
"How proudly the great man steps; he thinks, no doubt, he has
performed some great and noble deed in putting me to death, and all
because, seeing him deemed worthy of the highest honours of the state,
I told him it ill became him to bring up his so in a tan-yard.[56]
What a scamp the fellow is! he appears not to know that of us two
whichever has achieved what is best and noblest for all future time is
the real victor in this suit. Well! well!" he added, "Homer[57] has
The Apology |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: For if I were to tell you what I think of all your Hanover business it
would make your head sing."
But Sheriff Erskine had preserved his temper, and now intervened
smoothly. "And in the meantime," says he, "I think we should tell Mr.
Balfour that his character for valour is quite established. He may
sleep in peace. Until the date he was so good as to refer to it shall
be put to the proof no more."
His coolness brought the others to their prudence; and they made haste,
with a somewhat distracted civility, to pack me from the house.
CHAPTER IX - THE HEATHER ON FIRE
WHEN I left Prestongrange that afternoon I was for the first time
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