| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were
assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known
throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov. Cadet
Rostov, ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had
lived with the squadron commander.
On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the
news of Mack's defeat, the camp life of the officers of this
squadron was proceeding as usual. Denisov, who had been losing at
cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early
in the morning from a foraging expedition. Rostov in his cadet
uniform, with a jerk to his horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg
War and Peace |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: men who have a work to do; and the place from which they went
was called Aphetai, the sailing-place, from that day forth.
Three thousand years and more they sailed away, into the
unknown Eastern seas; and great nations have come and gone
since then, and many a storm has swept the earth; and many a
mighty armament, to which ARGO would be but one small boat;
English and French, Turkish and Russian, have sailed those
waters since; yet the fame of that small ARGO lives for ever,
and her name is become a proverb among men.
So they sailed past the Isle of Sciathos, with the Cape of
Sepius on their left, and turned to the northward toward
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: to whisper ambitious thoughts into his pupil's head, at this time
sought Dr. Cosin, Bishop of Durham, and according to the "Stuart
Papers," told him "he might do a great piece of service to the
Church of England in keeping out popery, if he would but sign a
certificate of the king's marriage to the Duke of Monmouth's
mother, with whom that bishop was acquainted in Paris. Ross also
told the bishop, to make the thing more easy to him, that during
his life the certificate should not be produced or made use of."
The same papers state that, as a bishop's certificate is a legal
proof of marriage, Dr. Cosin's compliance would have been
invaluable to the duke and his friends. His lordship, however,
|
