| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: the goddess complex."
"The connexion is not perhaps immediately visible," said the
doctor.
"There was no connexion," said Sir Richmond. "The women of my
adolescent dreams were stripped and strong and lovely. They
were great creatures. They came, it was clearly traceable,
from pictures sculpture--and from a definite response in
myself to their beauty. My mother had nothing whatever to do
with that. The women and girls about me were fussy bunches of
clothes that I am sure I never even linked with that dream
world of love and worship."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: the backbone, and would never allow his name to remain under the
slightest cloud! Money without honor is a disease. There is honor in
the provinces! Right, very right, Grandet. I'm an old soldier, and I
can't disguise my thoughts; I speak roughly. Thunder! it is sublime!"
"Th-then s-s-sublime th-things c-c-cost d-dear," answered the goodman,
as the banker warmly wrung his hand.
"But this, my dear Grandet,--if the president will excuse me,--is a
purely commercial matter, and needs a consummate business man. Your
agent must be some one fully acquainted with the markets,--with
disbursements, rebates, interest calculations, and so forth. I am
going to Paris on business of my own, and I can take charge of--"
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: power of the Awgwas; for children possessing such lovely playthings as
he gave them had no wish to obey the evil thoughts the Awgwas tried to
thrust into their minds.
Therefore, one year when the wicked tribe was to elect a new King,
they chose an Awgwa who proposed to destroy Claus and take him away
from the children.
"There are, as you know, fewer naughty children in the world since
Claus came to the Laughing Valley and began to make his toys," said
the new King, as he squatted upon a rock and looked around at the
scowling faces of his people. "Why, Bessie Blithesome has not stamped
her foot once this month, nor has Mayrie's brother slapped his
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
