| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: know, for instance, what will happen at nine o'clock in your
goddaughter's bedroom. Remember, or write down, what the sleeper will
see and hear, and then go home. Your little Ursula, whom I do not
know, is not our accomplice, and if she tells you that she has said
and done what you have written down--lower thy head, proud Hun!"
The two friends returned to the house opposite to the Assumption and
found the somnambulist, who in her waking state did not recognize
Doctor Minoret. The eyes of this woman closed gently before the hand
of the Swedenborgian, which was stretched towards her at a little
distance, and she took the attitude in which Minoret had first seen
her. When her hand and that of the doctor were again joined, he asked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: my gold-handled hunting-whip, with my name on: he took it away,
without my knowing, the day he went hunting on Wildfire, the last
time he was seen."
Godfrey paused: it was not so easy to say what came next. "Do you
think he drowned himself?" said Nancy, almost wondering that her
husband should be so deeply shaken by what had happened all those
years ago to an unloved brother, of whom worse things had been
augured.
"No, he fell in," said Godfrey, in a low but distinct voice, as if
he felt some deep meaning in the fact. Presently he added:
"Dunstan was the man that robbed Silas Marner."
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: "Your brother-in-law," observed Thorpe, meditatively.
Some shadowy, remote impression of having forgotten
something troubled his mind for an instant. "Is your
brother-in-law in the rubber business?"
"Extraor'nary thing," explained Tavender, beamingly, "he don't
know no more about the whole affair than the man 'n the moon.
I asked him today--but he couldn't tell me anything about
the business--what it was I'd been sent for, or anything."
"But he--he knew you'd been sent for," Thorpe commented
upon brief reflection.
"Why, he sent the second cable himself----"
The Market-Place |
