| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: imagined that there was any purpose in it. Besides, he never raised
his nose above his book, poor young man! And then, monsieur, of an
evening he went for a walk on the hill among the ruins of the old
castle. It was his only amusement, poor man; it reminded him of his
native land. They say that Spain is all hills!
" 'One evening, a few days after he was sent here, he was out very
late. I was rather uneasy when he did not come in till just on the
stroke of midnight; but we all got used to his whims; he took the key
of the door, and we never sat up for him. He lived in a house
belonging to us in the Rue des Casernes. Well, then, one of our
stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in
La Grande Breteche |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Confusion, fear, distraction, and disgrace,
And silent shame, are seen in ev'ry face.
Latinus tears his garments as he goes,
Both for his public and his private woes;
With filth his venerable beard besmears,
And sordid dust deforms his silver hairs.
And much he blames the softness of his mind,
Obnoxious to the charms of womankind,
And soon seduc'd to change what he so well design'd;
To break the solemn league so long desir'd,
Nor finish what his fates, and those of Troy, requir'd.
Aeneid |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: smoothing his brow. "After all you and I were not meant to meet
only to quarrel. Would you have preferred to see them pass into
Tengga's keeping?"
"Tengga is fat and full of wiles," said Daman, disdainfully, "a
mere shopkeeper smitten by a desire to be a chief. He is nothing.
But you and I are men that have real power. Yet there is a truth
that you and I can confess to each other. Men's hearts grow
quickly discontented. Listen. The leaders of men are carried
forward in the hands of their followers; and common men's minds
are unsteady, their desires changeable, and their thoughts not to
be trusted. You are a great chief they say. Do not forget that I
The Rescue |
