| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: prisoners the police were hoping to lay their hands on a
considerable sum of money. But on hinting her suspicions to the
old fox of the Petite Rue Saint-Anne, that officer began to
smile, and tried to put her off the scent.
"A delusion," he said. "Collin's sorbonne is the most dangerous
that has yet been found among the dangerous classes. That is all,
and the rascals are quite aware of it. They rally round him; he
is the backbone of the federation, its Bonaparte, in short; he is
very popular with them all. The rogue will never leave his chump
in the Place de Greve."
As Mlle. Michonneau seemed mystified, Gondureau explained the two
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: peace. To-morrow morning you and I and Kouski will take down all those
pictures and send them over to the painter, so that he shall see them
when he wakes up. We will put the frames in the garret, and cover the
walls with one of those varnished papers which represent scenes from
Telemachus, such as I have seen at Monsieur Mouilleron's."
"Oh, that will be much prettier!" said Flore.
On the morrow, Joseph did not wake up till midday. From his bed he saw
the pictures, which had been brought in while he was asleep, leaning
one against another on the opposite wall. While he examined them anew,
recognizing each masterpiece, studying the manner of each painter, and
searching for the signature, his mother had gone to see and thank her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Once he found himself wondering why he was risking his
life to avenge or rescue this girl whom be hated so. He tried
to think that it was for the ransom--yes, that was it, the
ransom. If he found her alive, and rescued her he should
claim the lion's share of the booty.
Theriere too wondered why Byrne, of all the other men
upon the Halfmoon the last that he should have expected to
risk a thing for the sake of Miss Harding, should be the
foremost in pursuit of her captors.
"I wonder how far behind Sanders and Wison are," he
remarked to Byrne after they had been on the trail for the
The Mucker |
