| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: good as new. He finds himself surrounded in the most touching
manner by the attentions of Providence, and compares himself
involuntarily with the lilies and the skylarks. He does not
precisely sing, of course; but then he looks so unassuming in his
open landau! If all the world dined at one table, this philosophy
would meet with some rude knocks.
PONT-SUR-SAMBRE
THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT
LIKE the lackeys in Moliere's farce, when the true nobleman broke
in on their high life below stairs, we were destined to be
confronted with a real pedlar. To make the lesson still more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: of that; but the way Buck did take on because he
didn't manage to kill Harney that day he shot at him
-- I hain't ever heard anything like it.
All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes three or
four guns -- the men had slipped around through the
woods and come in from behind without their horses!
The boys jumped for the river -- both of them hurt --
and as they swum down the current the men run along
the bank shooting at them and singing out, "Kill
them, kill them!" It made me so sick I most fell out
of the tree. I ain't a-going to tell ALL that happened --
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: were given.
"Shoustova--Shoustova? I cannot remember all their names, there
are so many of them," he said, as if reproaching them because
there were so many. He rang, and ordered the secretary to be
called. While waiting for the latter, he began persuading
Nekhludoff to serve, saying that "honest noblemen," counting
himself among the number, "were particularly needed by the Tsar
and--the country," he added, evidently only to round off his
sentence. "I am old, yet I am serving still, as well as my
strength allows."
The secretary, a dry, emaciated man, with restless, intelligent
Resurrection |
