| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: were alone she sang obscene songs to amuse me. She was the very
type of the shameless, heartless, senseless courtesan, for me at
least, for perhaps some men might have dreamed of her as I
dreamed of Marguerite. She asked me for money. I gave it to her,
and, free then to go, I returned home.
Marguerite had not answered.
I need not tell you in what state of agitation I spent the next
day. At half past nine a messenger brought me an envelope
containing my letter and the five-hundred-franc note, not a word
more.
"Who gave you this?" I asked the man.
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: On Monday she presented herself at the Haynes-Cooper plant.
Monday and Tuesday were spent in going over the great works.
It was an exhausting process, but fascinating beyond belief.
It was on Wednesday that she had been summoned for the talk
with Michael Fenger. Thursday morning she was at her desk
at eight-thirty. It was an obscure desk, in a dingy corner
of the infants' wear department, the black sheep section of
the great plant. Her very presence in that corner seemed to
change it magically. You must remember how young she was,
how healthy, how vigorous, with the freshness of the small
town still upon her. It was health and youth, and vigor
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: yourselves on their backs; then remember the favour of your Lord
when ye settled thereon, and say, 'Celebrated be the praises of Him
who hath subjected this to us! We could not have got this ourselves;
and, verily, unto our Lord shall we return!'
Yet they make for Him of His servants offspring; verily, man is
surely obviously ungrateful.
Has He taken of what He creates daughters, and chosen sons for you?
Yet when the tidings are given any one of that which he strikes
out as a similitude for the Merciful One, his face grows black and
he is choked. What! one brought up amongst ornaments, and who is
always in contention without obvious cause?
The Koran |
