| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: "Let us hasten."
"Can the Cardinal have taken it?"
"No, here it is."
"What danger we have escaped!"
Olympia looked at the key, and
fancied she recognized it as her own.
But Rinaldo had changed it; his
cunning had triumphed; he had the
right key. Like a modern Cartouche,
he was no less skilful than bold,
and suspecting that nothing but a
The Muse of the Department |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: My sincere prayer is that they may not provoke
God, by persisting in a reckless course of wicked-
ness, to pour out his consuming wrath upon them.
I must now return to our history.
My old master had the reputation of being a
very humane and Christian man, but he thought
nothing of selling my poor old father, and dear
aged mother, at separate times, to different persons,
to be dragged off never to behold each other again,
till summoned to appear before the great tribunal
of heaven. But, oh! what a happy meeting it
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: enough, but when he had to answer questions as to what certain
events prefigured, he knew nothing, though he had already been
punished over this lesson. The passage at which he was utterly
unable to say anything, and began fidgeting and cutting the table
and swinging his chair,was where he had to repeat the patriarchs
before the Flood.He did not know one of them, except Enoch, who
had been taken up alive to heaven. Last time he had remembered
their names, but now he had forgotten them utterly, chiefly
because Enoch was the personage he liked best in the whole of the
Old Testament, and Enoch's translation to heaven was connected in
his mind with a whole long train of thought, in which he became
Anna Karenina |
