| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: boundary," he replied with a sorry smile.
She came quite close to him, laying her hands upon his
shoulders.
"I cannot give you up now," she said simply. "I have
tried to be loyal to Leopold and the promise that my father
made his king when I was only a little girl; but since I
thought that you were to be shot, I have wished a thousand
times that I had gone with you to America two years ago.
Take me with you now, Barney. We can send Lieutenant
Butzow to rescue the king, and before he has returned we
can be safe across the Serbian frontier."
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Andean peaks, enveloped in their greatness and sublimity.
The mightiest cousins, furthest removed, in nature's
great family become conscious of the tie. Among those
huge piles of primordial upheaval, amid those gigantic
silences and elongated fields of distance the littlenesses
of men are precipitated as one chemical throws down a
sediment from another. They moved reverently, as
in a temple. Their souls were uplifted in unison with the
stately heights. They travelled in a zone of majesty and
peace.
To Armstrong the woman seemed almost a holy thing.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: believe that you actually inspire him; for I, who never am away from
him, have never heard anything like this."
"And Kadijah's farewell!" cried Gambara, who sang the /cavatina/ which
he had described the day before as sublime, and which now brought
tears to the eyes of the lovers, so perfectly did it express the
loftiest devotion of love.
"Who can have taught you such strains?" cried the Count.
"The Spirit," said Gambara. "When he appears, all is fire. I see the
melodies there before me; lovely, fresh in vivid hues like flowers.
They beam on me, they ring out,--and I listen. But it takes a long,
long time to reproduce them."
Gambara |
