| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: Soleil d'Or until to-morrow morning, and you will find me ready to
show you what it means to give satisfaction. I fought in July,
Monsieur."
"And you shall fight in Vouvray," answered the dyer; "and what is
more, you shall stay here longer than you imagine."
Gaudissart marched off, turning over in his mind this prophetic
remark, which seemed to him full of sinister portent. For the first
time in his life the prince of travellers did not dine jovially. The
whole town of Vouvray was put in a ferment about the "affair" between
Monsieur Vernier and the apostle of Saint-Simonism. Never before had
the tragic event of a duel been so much as heard of in that benign and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch,
glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his
head in his hands. In a moment he had concealed his damp body
in a sleeping suit of the same gray-stripe pattern as the one
I was wearing and followed me like my double on the poop.
Together we moved right aft, barefooted, silent.
"What is it?" I asked in a deadened voice, taking the lighted lamp
out of the binnacle, and raising it to his face.
"An ugly business."
He had rather regular features; a good mouth; light eyes under
somewhat heavy, dark eyebrows; a smooth, square forehead; no growth
The Secret Sharer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the strength of the ox.
PRO 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will
utter lies.
PRO 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is
easy unto him that understandeth.
PRO 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest
not in him the lips of knowledge.
PRO 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the
folly of fools is deceit.
PRO 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is
favour.
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