| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: in hers when death chilled them. So I killed myself that she might not
lie alone in her sepulchral bed, under her marble sheet. Teresa is
above and I am here. I could not bear to leave her, but God has
divided us. Why, then, did He unite us on earth? He is jealous!
Paradise was no doubt so much the fairer on the day when Teresa
entered in.
" 'Do you see her? She is sad in her bliss; she is parted from me!
Paradise must be a desert to her.'
" 'Master,' said I with tears, for I thought of my love, 'when this
one shall desire Paradise for God's sake alone, shall he not be
delivered?' And the Father of Poets mildly bowed his head in sign of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: princess to wife for the Lord Abdallah.
When he had ended, the king sat for a while stroking his beard
and meditating. But before he spoke the oldest lord of the
council arose and said: "O sire! If this Lord Abdallah who asks
for the princess for his wife can send such a magnificent company
in the train of his ambassador, may it not be that he may be able
also to help you in your war against the Emperor of India?"
"True!" said the king. Then turning to the ambassador: "Tell your
master," said he, "that if he will furnish me with an army of one
hundred thousand men, to aid me in the war against the Emperor of
India, he shall have my daughter for his wife."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: the Republic of so many Barbarians for so few Carthaginians, showed
that the value of the former was nothing and that of the latter
considerable. They dreaded a snare. Autaritus refused.
Then the Ancients decreed the execution of the captives, although the
Suffet had written to them not to put them to death. He reckoned upon
incorporating the best of them with his own troops and of thus
instigating defections. But hatred swept away all circumspection.
The two thousand Barbarians were tied to the stelae of the tombs in
the Mappalian quarter; and traders, scullions, embroiderers, and even
women,--the widows of the dead with their children--all who would,
came to kill them with arrows. They aimed slowly at them, the better
Salammbo |
