| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: sufferings; for she had indeed suffered in presenting herself before
the public to obtain a happiness her parents refused to sanction.
"Why should others come between us?" she said with an artlessness of
feeling that delighted Luigi.
A sense of accomplished happiness now made the step of the young pair
lighter; they saw neither heaven, nor earth, nor houses; they flew, as
it were, on wings to the church. When they reached a dark little
chapel in one corner of the building, and stood before a plain
undecorated altar, an old priest married them. There, as in the
mayor's office, two other marriages were taking place, still pursuing
them with pomp. The church, filled with friends and relations, echoed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue
In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs,
With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand,
Tearing those humane passions from the mind,
Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish,
Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense,
And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone.
We not require the dull society
Of your necessitated temperance,
Or that unnatural stupidity
That knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forc'd
Walden |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: glimmering pallidly in the moonlight, spread for drying after the
storm. He was walking up the shore homeward when he became aware
that at some distance ahead of him there was a ship's boat drawn
up on the little narrow beach, and a group of men clustered about
it. He hurried forward with a good deal of curiosity to see who
had landed, but it was not until he had come close to them that
he could distinguish who and what they were. Then he knew that
it must be a party who had come off the pirate sloop. They had
evidently just landed, and two men were lifting out a chest from
the boat. One of them was a negro, naked to the waist, and the
other was a white man in his shirt sleeves, wearing petticoat
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
