| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: introduced me to Mikhail Alexandrovitch, and I've fallen in love
with him in my old age, like a wicked woman!"
On the fifth of February, her name-day, Agáfya
Mikháilovna received a telegram of congratulation from
Stakhóvitch.
When my father heard of it, he said jokingly to
Agáfya Mikháilovna:
"Aren't you ashamed that a man had to trudge two miles
through the frost at night all for the sake of your telegram?"
"Trudge, trudge? Angels bore him on their wings. Trudge,
indeed! You get three telegrams from an outlandish Jew woman,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Opossum, the Jaguar, the Parrot, etc., probably symbolic of
their respective clans.
By some such process as this, it may fairly be supposed,
the forms of the Gods were slowly exhaled from the actual
figures of men and women, of youths and girls, who year
after year took part in the ancient rituals. Just as the Queen
of the May or Father Christmas with us are idealized forms
derived from the many happy maidens or white-bearded
old men who took leading parts in the May or December
mummings and thus gained their apotheosis in our
literature and tradition--so doubtless Zeus with his thunderbolts
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: and I slipped away into the crowd. A girl who took my part so warmly,
and then showed such emotion on being detected in doing so, could not
be absolutely indifferent to me; and as on my first visit I had only,
after all, been coldly received, I decided, after my great success at
the Exhibition, in consequence of which I was made a chevalier of the
Legion of honor, to call again upon the Lantys; perhaps my new
distinctions would procure me a better reception.
Monsieur de Lanty received me without rising, and with the following
astounding apostrophe:--
"I think you very courageous, monsieur, to venture to present yourself
here."
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