| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: her. Nevertheless, though she was only a kept woman, I had so
anticipated for myself, perhaps to poetize it a little, a
hopeless love, that the nearer the moment approached when I
should have nothing more to hope, the more I doubted. I did not
close my eyes all night.
I scarcely knew myself. I was half demented. Now, I seemed to
myself not handsome or rich or elegant enough to possess such a
woman, now I was filled with vanity at the thought of it; then I
began to fear lest Marguerite had no more than a few days'
caprice for me, and I said to myself that since we should soon
have to part, it would be better not to keep her appointment, but
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: remounted their beasts, and followed the road to Saragossa, which they
expected to reach in time to take part in a certain grand festival
which is held every year in that illustrious city; but before they got
there things happened to them, so many, so important, and so
strange, that they deserve to be recorded and read, as will be seen
farther on.
CHAPTER XI
OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH
THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH"
Dejected beyond measure did Don Quixote pursue his journey,
turning over in his mind the cruel trick the enchanters had played him
Don Quixote |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: On they went for another quarter of an hour, and a distance of half-a-
mile must have been cleared from the mouth of the cave, when Harding's
voice was again heard.
"Stop!" said he.
The boat stopped, and the colonists perceived a bright light illuminating
the vast cavern, so deeply excavated in the bowels of the island, of which
nothing had ever led them to suspect the existence.
At a height of a hundred feet rose the vaulted roof, supported on basalt
shafts. Irregular arches, strange moldings, appeared on the columns erected
by nature in thousands from the first epochs of the formation of the globe.
The basalt pillars, fitted one into the other, measured from forty to fifty
The Mysterious Island |
