| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: of the streets, his course may be traced by the ravages that he
has made. The wealth of feeling and imagination is the poetry of
the garret; how should love exist there without that wealth?
If there are exceptions who do not subscribe to these Draconian
laws of the Parisian code, they are solitary examples. Such souls
live so far out of the main current that they are not borne away
by the doctrines of society; they dwell beside some clear spring
of everflowing water, without seeking to leave the green shade;
happy to listen to the echoes of the infinite in everything
around them and in their own souls, waiting in patience to take
their flight for heaven, while they look with pity upon those of
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: meanest no harm in coming hither; ne'theless it was ill of thee
so to do. An my father should find thee here, he would have thee
shrewdly punished for such trespassing. Dost thou not know that
no one is permitted to enter this place--no, not even my uncle
George? One fellow who came hither to steal apples once had his
ears shaven close to his head, and not more than a year ago one
of the cook's men who climbed the wall early one morning was shot
by the watchman."
"Aye," said Myles, "I knew of him who was shot, and it did go
somewhat against my stomach to venture, knowing what had happed
to him. Ne'theless, an I gat not the ball, how were we to play
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to keep away from a Certain Person for a time as it was dangerous.
She then merely mentioned the word "revolver" as meaning nothing to
the clerk but a great deal to Tom. She also aranged a meeting in
the Park at 3 P. M. as being the hour when father signed his mail
before going to his Club to play bridge untill dinner.
Our meeting was a sad one. How could it be otherwise, when to
loving Hearts are forbiden to beat as one, or even to meet? And
when one or the other is constantly saying:
"Turn your back. There is some one I know coming!"
Or:
"There's the Peters's nurse, and she's the worst talker you ever
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