| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: and were speculating only on the pleasures of life, you would have
found no cause to hate usurious discounts, or to curse bankruptcies.
Mankind can't always be doing evil. Even in the society of pirates one
might find a few sweet hours during which we could fancy their
sinister craft a pleasure-boat rocking on the deep.
"Before we part, Monsieur Hermann will, I trust, tell one more German
story to terrify us?"
These words were said at dessert by a pale fair girl, who had read, no
doubt, the tales of Hoffmann and the novels of Walter Scott. She was
the only daughter of the banker, a charming young creature whose
education was then being finished at the Gymnase, the plays of which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: generations is taken away, by the act of the first electors,
in their choice not only of a king, but of a family of kings for ever,
hath no parallel in or out of scripture but the doctrine of original sin,
which supposes the free will of all men lost in Adam;
and from such comparison, and it will admit of no other,
hereditary succession can derive no glory. For as in Adam all sinned,
and as in the first electors all men obeyed; as in the one all mankind
we re subjected to Satan, and in the other to Sovereignty; as our innocence
was lost in the first, and our authority in the last; and as both disable
us from reassuming some former state and privilege, it unanswerably
follows that original sin and hereditary succession are parallels.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: accounts.
The trouble is, however, the execrable Bertha Coutts has not confined
herself to her own experiences and sufferings. She has discovered, at
the top of her voice, that her husband has been 'keeping' women down at
the cottage, and has made a few random shots at naming the women. This
has brought a few decent names trailing through the mud, and the thing
has gone quite considerably too far. An injunction has been taken out
against the woman.
I have had to interview Mellors about the business, as it was
impossible to keep the woman away from the wood. He goes about as
usual, with his Miller-of-the-Dee air, I care for nobody, no not I, if
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
