| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Philemon, ho!
[Enter Philemon.]
PHILEMON.
Doth my lord call?
CERIMON.
Get fire and meat for these poor men:
'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.
SERVANT.
I have been in many; but such a night as this,
Till now, I ne'er endured.
CERIMON.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: sure of it. The same old one will answer; he never stales.
Eighteen years ago I was in London and I called at an
Englishman's house on a bleak and foggy and dismal December
afternoon to visit his wife and married daughter by appointment.
I waited half an hour and then they arrived, frozen. They
explained that they had been delayed by an unlooked-for
circumstance: while passing in the neighborhood of Marlborough
House they saw a crowd gathering and were told that the Prince of
Wales was about to drive out, so they stopped to get a sight of
him. They had waited half an hour on the sidewalk, freezing with
the crowd, but were disappointed at last--the Prince had changed
What is Man? |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Besides, six years of military service will put some lead into his
head; and as he has only his last legal examination to pass, it won't
be much ill-luck for him if he doesn't become a lawyer till he is
twenty-six; that is, if he wants to continue in the law after paying,
as they say, his tax of blood. By that time, at any rate, he will have
been severely punished, he will have learned experience, and
contracted habits of subordination. Before making his probation at the
bar he will have gone through his probations in life."
"If that is your decision for a son," said Madame Clapart, "I see that
the heart of a father is not like that of a mother. My poor Oscar a
common soldier!--"
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