| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: prau, was, in his own words, 'familiar with the locality.' The
huge Frenchman, walking up and down the room with his stumps in the
pockets of his jacket, stopped short in surprise. 'COMMENT?
BAMTZ! BAMTZ!'
"He had run across him several times in his life. He exclaimed:
'BAMTZ! MAIS JE NE CONNAIS QUE CA!' And he applied such a
contemptuously indecent epithet to Bamtz that when, later, he
alluded to him as 'UNE CHIFFE' (a mere rag) it sounded quite
complimentary. 'We can do with him what we like,' he asserted
confidently. 'Oh, yes. Certainly we must hasten to pay a visit to
that - ' (another awful descriptive epithet quite unfit for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: IX
THE FAMILY COUNCIL
At nine o'clock that morning Monsieur Martener went to see Monsieur
Tiphaine, and related to him the scene between Pierrette and Sylvie,
and the tortures of all kinds, moral and physical, to which the
Rogrons had subjected their cousin, and the two alarming forms of
illness which their cruelty had developed. Monsieur Tiphaine sent for
Auffray the notary, one of Pierrette's own relations on the maternal
side.
At this particular time the war between the Vinet party and the
Tiphaine party was at its height. The scandals which the Rogrons and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: would be a charming mistress to have."
Happily, the curtain rose and my friend was silent. I could not
possibly tell you what they were acting. All that I remember is
that from time to time I raised my eyes to the box I had quitted
so abruptly, and that the faces of fresh visitors succeeded one
another all the time.
I was far from having given up thinking about Marguerite. Another
feeling had taken possession of me. It seemed to me that I had
her insult and my absurdity to wipe out; I said to myself that if
I spent every penny I had, I would win her and win my right to
the place I had abandoned so quickly.
Camille |
