| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: out to the Marquise, as if he were flying to an assignation. He dashed
through a well-known gap into the park, and went slowly along the
avenues, stopping now and again for a little to still the loud beating
of his heart. Smothered sounds as he came nearer the chateau told him
that the servants must be at supper, and he went straight to Mme. de
Beauseant's room.
Mme. de Beauseant never left her bedroom. M. de Nueil could gain the
doorway without making the slightest sound. There, by the light of two
wax candles, he saw the thin, white Marquise in a great armchair; her
head was bowed, her hands hung listlessly, her eyes gazing fixedly at
some object which she did not seem to see. Her whole attitude spoke of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: "Well, what then? Where things won't be
better, they will be worse; and from bad to good
again is not far."
"And who taught you that song?"
"Nobody taught me; it comes into my head
and I sing; whoever is to hear it, he will hear it,
and whoever ought not to hear it, he will not
understand it."
"What is your name, my songstress?"
"He who baptized me knows."
"And who baptized you?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Some of the alcohol had evaporated from his brain. "I
recollect now where I got that two hundred dollars."
"Don't think of it," said Coltrane cheerfully. "Later
on we'll figure it all out together."
They rode out of the branch, and when they reached
the foot of the hill Goree stopped again.
"Did you ever suspect I was a very vain kind of fellow,
Colonel" he asked. "Sort of foolish proud about
appearances?"
The colonel's eyes refused to wander to the soiled, sag-
ging suit of flax and the faded slouch hat.
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