| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: room swept by ducal satin and velvet did not make indestructible laws.
Napoleon never guessed the results of the Code he was so proud of.
That man, by creating duchesses, founded the race of our 'ladies' of
to-day--the indirect offspring of his legislation."
"It was logic, handled as a hammer by boys just out of school and by
obscure journalists, which demolished the splendors of the social
state," said the Comte de Vandenesse. "In these days every rogue who
can hold his head straight in his collar, cover his manly bosom with
half an ell of satin by way of a cuirass, display a brow where
apocryphal genius gleams under curling locks, and strut in a pair of
patent-leather pumps graced by silk socks which cost six francs,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice,
Saying, "Come out from the grove, my love and care,
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice."'
Thus did my mother say, and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black, and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy,
I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our Father's knee;
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him, and he will then love me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: caused Daphne to break into a run.
Our luck was out. When we had completed the circle of the
cromlechs, we came suddenly upon him. More to our dismay than
surprise he had become the centre of a little knot of
excursionists, who were listening to him eagerly. As we
appeared:
"Ah," he said to the interested company, "here is my Aunt!
She'll tell you. Aunt Daphne, wasn't it here that father lost
the string bag?"
"Wretched fool!" said Daphne under her breath, turning hurriedly
in the direction of the car.
The Brother of Daphne |
