| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: While the horse was being harnessed the talk returned to the
point at which it had stopped when Vasili Andreevich drove up
to the window. The old man had been complaining to his
neighbour, the village elder, about his third son who had not
sent him anything for the holiday though he had sent a French
shawl to his wife.
'The young people are getting out of hand,' said the old man.
'And how they do!' said the neighbour. 'There's no managing
them! They know too much. There's Demochkin now, who broke
his father's arm. It's all from being too clever, it seems.'
Nikita listened, watched their faces, and evidently would have
Master and Man |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SALOME. Je n'ai pas faim, tetrarque.
HERODE [e Herodias] Voile comme vous l'avez elevee, votre fille.
HERODIAS. Ma fille et moi, nous descendons d'une race royale.
Quant e toi, ton grand-pere gardait des chameaux! Aussi, c'etait un
voleur!
HERODE. Tu mens!
HERODIAS. Tu sais bien que c'est la verite.
HERODE. Salome, viens t'asseoir pres de moi. Je te donnerai le
trone de ta mere.
SALOME. Je ne suis pas fatiguee, tetrarque.
HERODIAS. Vous voyez bien ce qu'elle pense de vous.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Alfred Vargrave could feel there were tears on his cheek;
He brushed them away with a gesture of pride.
He glanced at the glass; when his own face he eyed,
He was scared by its pallor. Inclining his head,
He with tones calm, unshaken, and silvery, said,
"Sir Ridley may enter."
In three minutes more
That benign apparition appeared at the door.
Sir Ridley, released for a while from the cares
Of business, and minded to breathe the pure airs
Of the blue Pyrenees, and enjoy his release,
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