| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Then Jason cried, 'Fulfil your promise, and let your fiery
bulls come forth.'
Then Aietes bade open the gates, and the magic bulls leapt
out. Their brazen hoofs rang upon the ground, and their
nostrils sent out sheets of flame, as they rushed with
lowered heads upon Jason; but he never flinched a step. The
flame of their breath swept round him, but it singed not a
hair of his head; and the bulls stopped short and trembled
when Medeia began her spell.
Then Jason sprang upon the nearest and seized him by the
horn; and up and down they wrestled, till the bull fell
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "Order and method!" Mrs. Vivian exclaimed. "With his immense property
those virtues are necessary."
Bernard glanced at her a moment.
"My dear Lovelock," he said to himself, "you are not such a fool as you seem.--
Gordon's virtues are always necessary, doubtless," he went on. "But should
you say his property was immense?"
Mrs. Vivian made a delicate little movement of deprecation.
"Oh, don't ask me to say! I know nothing about it; I only supposed
he was rich."
"He is rich; but he is not a Croesus."
"Oh, you fashionable young men have a standard of luxury!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: wreck of an arbor, and under it a table still stands not entirely
destroyed by time. At the aspect of this garden that is no more, the
negative joys of the peaceful life of the provinces may be divined as
we divine the history of a worthy tradesman when we read the epitaph
on his tomb. To complete the mournful and tender impressions which
seize the soul, on one of the walls there is a sundial graced with
this homely Christian motto, '/Ultimam cogita/.'
"The roof of this house is dreadfully dilapidated; the outside
shutters are always closed; the balconies are hung with swallows'
nests; the doors are for ever shut. Straggling grasses have outlined
the flagstones of the steps with green; the ironwork is rusty. Moon
La Grande Breteche |
