| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: He not for his own self caring but her,
Her and her children, let her plead in vain;
So grieving held his will, and bore it thro'.
For Enoch parted with his old sea-friend,
Bought Annie goods and stores, and set his hand
To fit their little streetward sitting-room
With shelf and corner for the goods and stores.
So all day long till Enoch's last at home,
Shaking their pretty cabin, hammer and axe,
Auger and saw, while Annie seem'd to hear
Her own death-scaffold raising, shrill'd and rang,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: foot-soldiers who wore long hair took the precaution of cutting it on
the forehead; and Hamilcar ordered all bowls to be inverted from the
fifth hour, knowing that it is disadvantageous to fight with the
stomach too full. His army amounted to fourteen thousand men, or about
double the number of the Barbarians. Nevertheless, he had never felt
such anxiety; if he succumbed it would mean the annihilation of the
Republic, and he would perish on the cross; if, on the contrary, he
triumphed, he would reach Italy by way of the Pyrenees, the Gauls, and
the Alps, and the empire of the Barcas would become eternal. Twenty
times during the night he rose to inspect everything himself, down to
the most trifling details. As to the Carthaginians, they were
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: the old trick of copying some metropolitan menu to catch
travellers of the third and last dimension of innocence; and
whenever this is done the food is of the third and last dimension
of awfulness, which the cow-puncher knew as well as anybody.
"So they keep that up here still," I said.
"But what about them?" he repeated. His finger was at a special
item, FROGS' LEGS A LA DELMONICO. "Are they true anywheres?" he
asked And I told him, certainly. I also explained to him almost
Delmonico of New York and about Augustin of Philadelphia.
"There's not a little bit o' use in lyin' to me this mawnin'," he
said, with his engaging smile. "I ain't goin' to awdeh anything's
The Virginian |
