| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and
good looks and pleasure by way of a variety----"
"Aquilina! you are laughing, of course?"
"Oh, very well; and are you not laughing too? Do you take me for a
fool, telling me that you are going away? 'I am going to start
to-night!' " she said, mimicking his tones. "Stuff and nonsense! Would
you talk like that if you were really going from your Naqui? You would
cry, like the booby that you are!"
"After all, if I go, will you follow?" he asked.
"Tell me first whether this journey of yours is a bad joke or not."
"Yes, seriously, I am going."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: their sharp claws. But stand close behind me, and I will fight
them as long as I am alive."
"Wait a minute!" called the Scarecrow. He had been thinking
what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop
away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch.
The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two
Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the
gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were
dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.
"Well," said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of
relief, "I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I
The Wizard of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: The time for the laying has come. With one quick emission, the
viscous, pale-yellow eggs are laid in the basin, where they heap
together in the shape of a globe which projects largely outside the
cavity. The spinnerets are once more set going. With short
movements, as the tip of the abdomen rises and falls to weave the
round mat, they cover up the exposed hemisphere. The result is a
pill set in the middle of a circular carpet.
The legs, hitherto idle, are now working. They take up and break
off one by one the threads that keep the round mat stretched on the
coarse supporting network. At the same time, the fangs grip this
sheet, lift it by degrees, tear it from its base and fold it over
The Life of the Spider |
