| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: stolid contempt, which brought many a thrashing down on the Poet-and-
Pythagoras.
Lambert's home-sickness lasted for many months. I know no words to
describe the dejection to which he was a prey. Louis has taken the
glory off many a masterpiece for me. We had both played the part of
the "Leper of Aosta," and had both experienced the feelings described
in Monsieur de Maistre's story, before we read them as expressed by
his eloquent pen. A book may, indeed, revive the memories of our
childhood, but it can never compete with them successfully. Lambert's
woes had taught me many a chant of sorrow far more appealing than the
finest passages in "Werther." And, indeed, there is no possible
Louis Lambert |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: Not a word was spoken after they had thus left the shore, and
presently they might all have been ghosts, for the silence of the
party. Barnaby True was too full of his own thoughts to talk--and
serious enough thoughts they were by this time, with crimps to
trepan a man at every turn, and press gangs to carry a man off so
that he might never be heard of again. As for the others, they
did not seem to choose to say anything now that they had him
fairly embarked upon their enterprise.
And so the crew pulled on in perfect silence for the best part of
an hour, the leader of the expedition directing the course of the
boat straight across the harbor, as though toward the mouth of
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: No, it wasn't because her heart prompted her to believe in him; it
was because her head assured her she was safe in doing so. She
could trust him in an instance such as this because - well, because
once before, for her sake he had foregone the opportunity of
appropriating a certain diamond necklace worth a hundred times the
sum that she would ask him - yes, if necessary, for her sake - to
recover to-night. There was no...
She was listening in a startled way now at the instrument. Central
had given her "information"; and "information" was informing her
that the number she had asked for had been disconnected.
She hung up the receiver, and went out again to the street in a
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