| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: He was to leave Sunday morning for Cleveland, where he would
play Monday. He had insisted on taking Mizzi with him,
though Fanny had railed and stormed. Theodore had had his
way.
"She's used to it. She likes to travel, don't you, Mizzi?
You should have seen her in Russia, and all over Germany,
and in Sweden. She's a better traveler than her dad."
Saturday morning's papers were kind, but cool. They used
words such as promising, uneven, overambitious, gifted.
Theodore crumpled the lot into a ball and hurled them across
the room, swearing horribly. Then he smoothed them out,
Fanny Herself |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: addicted to vicious practices, and being unable to tell his own fate
from the cards, was arrested, tried, and condemned at the court of
assizes. Madame Fontaine, who predicts the future eight times out of
ten, was never able to know if she would win or lose in a lottery."
"It is the same thing in magnetism," remarked Bixiou. "A man can't
magnetize himself."
"Heavens! now we come to magnetism!" cried Gazonal. "Ah ca! do you
know everything?"
"Friend Gazonal," replied Bixiou, gravely, "to be able to laugh at
everything one must know everything. As for me, I've been in Paris
since my childhood; I've lived, by means of my pencil, on its follies
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: not say to me, though it had come to his lips twenty times: that
I was, after all, only a kept woman, and that whatever excuse I
gave for our liaison, it would always look like calculation on my
part; that my past life left me no right to dream of such a
future, and that I was accepting responsibilities for which my
habits and reputation were far from giving any guarantee. In
short, I loved you, Armand.
The paternal way in which M. Duval had spoken to me; the pure
memories that he awakened in me; the respect of this old man,
which I would gain; yours, which I was sure of gaining later on:
all that called up in my heart thoughts which raised me in my own
Camille |
