| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: stay,' I answered. 'I depart again to-morrow. And how are you
transplanted here, Mrs. Dean? tell me that.'
'Zillah left, and Mr. Heathcliff wished me to come, soon after you
went to London, and stay till you returned. But, step in, pray!
Have you walked from Gimmerton this evening?'
'From the Grange,' I replied; 'and while they make me lodging room
there, I want to finish my business with your master; because I
don't think of having another opportunity in a hurry.'
'What business, sir?' said Nelly, conducting me into the house.
'He's gone out at present, and won't return soon.'
'About the rent,' I answered.
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: court of Louis XV. I never found my beloved Venetian's charm, her
love, her great qualities.
"The Provveditore called his servants, the palace was surrounded and
entered; I fought for my life that I might die beneath Bianca's eyes;
Bianca helped me to kill the Provveditore. Once before she had refused
flight with me; but after six months of happiness she wished only to
die with me, and received several thrusts. I was entangled in a great
cloak that they flung over me, carried down to a gondola, and hurried
to the Pozzi dungeons. I was twenty-two years old. I gripped the hilt
of my broken sword so hard, that they could only have taken it from me
by cutting off my hand at the wrist. A curious chance, or rather the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: LUK 2:31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
LUK 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people
Israel.
LUK 2:33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were
spoken of him.
LUK 2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother,
Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in
Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
LUK 2:35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that
the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
LUK 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
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