| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: living for you. It's my intimacy with you that's in question."
He laughed as he saw what she meant. "Yes, but since, as you say,
I'm only, so far as people make out, ordinary, you're--aren't you?
no more than ordinary either. You help me to pass for a man like
another. So if I AM, as I understand you, you're not compromised.
Is that it?"
She had another of her waits, but she spoke clearly enough.
"That's it. It's all that concerns me--to help you to pass for a
man like another."
He was careful to acknowledge the remark handsomely. "How kind,
how beautiful, you are to me! How shall I ever repay you?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: through the street regularly for the last three days; but his hours
vary. The first day he came by at six o'clock, the day before
yesterday it was four, yesterday as early as three. I remember seeing
him occasionally some time ago. He is some clerk in the Prefet's
office who has moved to the Marais.--Why!" she exclaimed, after
glancing down the street, "our gentleman of the brown coat has taken
to wearing a wig; how much it alters him!"
The gentleman of the brown coat was, it would seem, the individual who
commonly closed the daily procession, for the old woman put on her
spectacles and took up her work with a sigh, glancing at her daughter
with so strange a look that Lavater himself would have found it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: were instantly opened as they appeared. The jailers, with their
fingers lifted to their caps, followed the inspector with their
eyes. Four men, with their heads half shaved, who were carrying
tubs filled with something, cringed when they saw the inspector.
One of them frowned angrily, his black eyes glaring.
"Of course a talent like that must be developed; it would not do
to bury it, but in a small lodging, you know, it is rather hard."
The inspector went on with the conversation, taking no notice of
the prisoners.
"Who is it you want to see?"
"Doukhova."
Resurrection |
