| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original
and manly virtues. But it is, once more, only a book for
those who have the gift of reading. I will be very frank - I
believe it is so with all good books except, perhaps,
fiction. The average man lives, and must live, so wholly in
convention, that gunpowder charges of the truth are more apt
to discompose than to invigorate his creed. Either he cries
out upon blasphemy and indecency, and crouches the closer
round that little idol of part-truths and part-conveniences
which is the contemporary deity, or he is convinced by what
is new, forgets what is old, and becomes truly blasphemous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: It's all harder on them than it is on me. Lou
wants to get married, poor boy, and he can't
until times are better. See, there goes the sun,
Carl. I must be getting back. Mother will want
her potatoes. It's chilly already, the moment
the light goes."
Alexandra rose and looked about. A golden
afterglow throbbed in the west, but the coun-
try already looked empty and mournful. A
dark moving mass came over the western hill,
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: All the women looked at each other with mysterious significance. When
Marie de Vandenesse departed Moina de Saint-Heren exclaimed:--
"She adores him."
"And she makes no secret of it," said Madame d'Espard.
CHAPTER VII
SUICIDE
In the month of May Vandenesse took his wife, as usual, to their
country-seat, where she was consoled by the passionate letters she
received from Raoul, to whom she wrote every day.
Marie's absence might have saved Raoul from the gulf into which he was
falling, if Florine had been near him; but, unfortunately, he was
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