| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: There are only two acres of vineyard at most, the ground rising at the
back of the house so steeply that it is no very easy matter to
scramble up among the vines. The slope, covered with green trailing
shoots, ends within about five feet of the house wall in a ditch-like
passage always damp and cold and full of strong growing green things,
fed by the drainage of the highly cultivated ground above, for rainy
weather washes down the manure into the garden on the terrace.
A vinedresser's cottage also leans against the western gable, and is
in some sort a continuation of the kitchen. Stone walls or espaliers
surround the property, and all sorts of fruit-trees are planted among
the vines; in short, not an inch of this precious soil is wasted. If
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: any pleasure to do something that people like?"
"Does it? Oh, how fine it all is, your
coming on like this! But I didn't want you to
think it was because of that I wanted to see you."
He spoke very seriously and looked down at the floor.
Hilda studied him in wide-eyed astonishment
for a moment, and then broke into a low,
amused laugh. "My dear Mr. Alexander,
you have strange delicacies. If you please,
that is exactly why you wish to see me.
We understand that, do we not?"
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: trying to be good with all his might and main, according to certain
approved methods and rules, which he has got by heart, and like a
weak oarsman, feeling and fingering his spiritual muscles over all
day, to see if they are growing; the other not even knowing whether
he is good or not, but just doing the right thing without thinking
about it, as simply as a little child, because the Spirit of God is
with him. If you cannot see the great gulf fixed between the two,
I trust that you will discover it some day.
But in justice be it said, all this came upon Eustace, not because
he was a Romanist, but because he was educated by the Jesuits. Had
he been saved from them, he might have lived and died as simple and
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