| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: them. They have never cared to guess my disappointments, my
sorrows, my wants; they never cared to know my life; they will
have no presentiment of my death; they do not even know the
secret of my tenderness for them. Yes, I see it all now. I have
laid my heart open so often, that they take everything I do for
them as a matter of course. They might have asked me for the very
eyes out of my head and I would have bidden them to pluck them
out. They think that all fathers are like theirs. You should
always make your value felt. Their own children will avenge me.
Why, for their own sakes they should come to me! Make them
understand that they are laying up retribution for their own
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Are set for you; this is a wedding feast.
You are out of place, sir; and, besides, 'tis summer.
We do not need these heavy fires now,
You scorch us.
Oh, I am burned up,
Can you do nothing? Water, give me water,
Or else more poison. No: I feel no pain -
Is it not curious I should feel no pain? -
And Death has gone away, I am glad of that.
I thought he meant to part us. Tell me, Guido,
Are you not sorry that you ever saw me?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: trouble, you see, and expenses; all that must be taken into
account."
"My dear friend, I can depend upon you, and have no fear for
the worthy Planchet; his interests are better in your hands
than in his own. But now that you have nothing more to do
here, we shall depart, if you please. You can go and thank
his majesty, ask if he has any commands, and in six days we
may be able to get sight of the towers of Notre Dame."
"My friend, I am most anxious to be off, and will go at once
and pay my respects to the king."
"I," said Athos, "am going to call upon some friends in the
Ten Years Later |
