| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: pebbles, had never been discerned by Dinah till they were as big as
rocks. Madame de la Baudraye had at last thoroughly understood
Lousteau's character.
"He is," she said to her mother, "a poet, defenceless against
disaster, mean out of laziness, not for want of heart, and rather too
prone to pleasure; in short, a great cat, whom it is impossible to
hate. What would become of him without me? I hindered his marriage; he
has no prospects. His talent would perish in privations."
"Oh, my Dinah!" Madame Piedefer had exclaimed, "what a hell you live
in! What is the feeling that gives you strength enough to persist?"
"I will be a mother to him!" she had replied.
The Muse of the Department |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was
most always right; he had an uncommon level head
for a nigger.
I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes
and earls and such, and how gaudy they dressed, and
how much style they put on, and called each other
your majesty, and your grace, and your lordship, and
so on, 'stead of mister; and Jim's eyes bugged out,
and he was interested. He says:
"I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't
hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Soller-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: of iron. The old man fitted the key to the lock and turned it. He
lifted the door, and then went down a steep flight of stone
steps, and the Fiddler followed close at his heels. Down below it
was as light as day, for in the centre of the room hung a great
lamp that shone with a bright light and lit up all the place as
bright as day. In the floor were set three great basins of
marble: one was nearly full of silver, one of gold, and one of
gems of all sorts.
"All this is mine," said the old man, "and after I am gone it
shall be yours. It was left to me as I will leave it to you, and
in the meantime you may come and go as you choose and fill your
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