| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: He had a hundred and thirty francs every quarter. His father,
mother, brothers, sisters, and aunt did not spend two hundred
francs a month among them. This swift comparison between his
present condition and the aims he had in view helped to benumb
his faculties.
"Why not?" the Vicomtesse was saying, as she smiled at the
Portuguese. "Why cannot you come to the Italiens?"
"Affairs! I am to dine with the English Ambassador."
"Throw him over."
When a man once enters on a course of deception, he is compelled
to add lie to lie. M. d'Ajuda therefore said, smiling, "Do you
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: she reached the stream. If the moon showed her the way more
clearly and thus saved her from an occasional fall, he would,
too, show her more clearly to the strange denizens of the towers,
and that, of course, must not be. Could she have waited until the
following night conditions would have been better, since Cluros
would not appear in the heavens at all and so, during Thuria's
absence, utter darkness would reign; but the pangs of thirst and
the gnawing of hunger could be endured no longer with food and
drink both in sight, and so she had decided to risk discovery
rather than suffer longer.
Safely past the nearest tower, she moved as rapidly as she felt
The Chessmen of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: the good ship Cat and Racket. The artist, intoxicated with happiness,
carried off his beloved Augustine, and eagerly lifting her out of
their carriage when it reached the Rue des Trois-Freres, led her to an
apartment embellished by all the arts.
The fever of passion which possessed Theodore made a year fly over the
young couple without a single cloud to dim the blue sky under which
they lived. Life did not hang heavy on the lovers' hands. Theodore
lavished on every day inexhaustible /fioriture/ of enjoyment, and he
delighted to vary the transports of passion by the soft languor of
those hours of repose when souls soar so high that they seem to have
forgotten all bodily union. Augustine was too happy for reflection;
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