| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: was in Italy with the fair Duchesse de Maufrigneuse.
When every franc of a man's fortune has come to him, not by
inheritance, but through his own earning and saving, it is one of his
sweetest pleasures to look back upon the pains that have gone to the
making of it, and then to plan out a future for his crowns. This it is
to conjugate the verb "to enjoy" in every tense. And the old lawyer,
whose affections were all bound up in a single attachment, was
thinking that all the carefully-chosen, well-tilled land which he had
pinched and scraped to buy would one day go to round the d'Esgrignon
estates, and the thought doubled his pleasure. His pride swelled as he
sat at his ease in the old armchair; and the building of glowing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: with a straw-colored wig who upon the stage was flinging her heels
in somewhat awkward imitation of a well-known danseuse.
At times Maggie told Pete long confidential tales of her
former home life, dwelling upon the escapades of the other members
of the family and the difficulties she had to combat in order to
obtain a degree of comfort. He responded in tones of philanthropy.
He pressed her arm with an air of reassuring proprietorship.
"Dey was damn jays," he said, denouncing the mother and brother.
The sound of the music which, by the efforts of the frowsy-
headed leader, drifted to her ears through the smoke-filled
atmosphere, made the girl dream. She thought of her former
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: from the latter. Nevertheless they respected this strong sister of
theirs who protected them, and they did not think that she could be
vanquished by a mass of Barbarians; these would on the contrary be
themselves exterminated. They desired to remain neutral and to live at
peace.
But their position rendered them indispensable. Utica, at the foot of
the gulf, was convenient for bringing assistance to Carthage from
without. If Utica alone were taken, Hippo-Zarytus, six hours further
distant along the coast, would take its place, and the metropolis,
being revictualled in this way, would be impregnable.
Spendius wished the siege to be undertaken immediately. Narr' Havas
Salammbo |
