| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Were our tears wanting to this funeral,
These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.
BEDFORD.
Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!
Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,
To weep their intermissive miseries.
[Enter to them another Messenger.]
MESSENGER.
Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: disintegrating forces would permit, made her as
tenacious of this vast territory she had so sparsely
populated as had she been aware that its founda-
tions were of gold, conceived that its climate and
soil were a more enduring source of wealth than
ever she would command again. If Rezanov was
not gifted with the prospector's sense for ores--
although he had taken note of Arguello's casual ref-
erence to a vein of silver and lead in the Monterey
hills--no man ever more thoroughly appreciated the
visible resources of California than he. Baranhov,
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: instead of remaining in Arcis, where his presence and his name would
contribute to the success of the election he desires, the very day
after legal formalities attending the recognition of his son had been
complied with, he departed furtively for foreign countries, where he
says he has important interests, without so much as taking leave of
his son. This coldness has poisoned the happiness Charles would
otherwise feel in these events; but one must take fathers as they are,
for Dorlange and I are living proofs that all cannot have them as they
want them.
Another eccentricity of the marquis is the choice he has made, as
chief assistant in his son's election, of an old Ursuline nun, with
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