| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: party eagerly seized on whatever might injure the rival party.
Personal hatreds and self-love mingled as much as political animosity
in even the smallest matters, and were carried to hitherto unheard-of
lengths. A whole town would be roused to excitement over some private
struggle, until it took the character of a political debate.
Monsieur Tiphaine at once perceived in the case of Pierrette against
the Rogrons a means of humbling, mortifying, and dishonoring the
masters of that salon where plans against the monarchy were made and
an opposition journal born. The public prosecutor was called in; and
together with Monsieur Auffray the notary, Pierrette's relation, and
Monsieur Martener, a cautious consultation was held in the utmost
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: When he buried his days in a nameless tomb,
And the stars were bleak, and the nights were slow.
And a passionate humor seized him there --
Seized him and held him until there grew
Like life on his canvas, glowing and fair,
A perilous face -- and an angel's, too.
Angel and maiden, and all in one, --
All but the eyes. -- They were there, but yet
They seemed somehow like a soul half done.
What was the matter? Did God forget? . . .
But he wrought them at last with a skill so sure
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
Glou. These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good
to
us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus,
yet
nature finds itself scourg'd by the sequent effects. Love
cools,
friendship falls off, brothers divide. In cities, mutinies;
in
countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond
crack'd
King Lear |
