| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: stood looking down at Balaam and Pedro, prone in the middle of
the open tableland. Then he saw Balaam looking at him. It was the
quiet stare of sight without thought or feeling, the mere visual
sense alone, almost frightful in its separation from any self.
But as he watched those eyes, the self came back into them. "I
have not killed you," said the Virginian. "Well, I ain't goin' to
go any more to yu'--if that's a satisfaction to know."
Then he began to attend to Balaam with impersonal skill, like
some one hired for the purpose. "He ain't hurt bad," he asserted
aloud, as if the man were some nameless patient; and then to
Balaam he remarked, "I reckon it might have put a less tough man
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
REIGNIER.
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;
Enter, and cry, 'The Dauphin!' presently,
And then do execution on the watch.
[Alarum. Exeunt.]
[An alarum. Enter Talbot in an excursion.]
TALBOT.
France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,
If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: 'dot,' for if it is so, you are Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Gerard
Douw!"
"And Magus is a famous picture-dealer!" said the painter, who now saw
the meaning of the misty and aged look imparted to his pictures in
Elie's shop, and the utility of the subjects the picture-dealer had
required of him.
Far from losing the esteem of his admiring bottle-merchant, Monsieur
de Fougeres (for so the family persisted in calling Pierre Grassou)
advanced so much that when the portraits were finished he presented
them gratuitously to his father-in-law, his mother-in-law and his
wife.
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