| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: grasped at the time: "You haven't been married long enough to
understand how trifling such things seem in the balance of one's
memories."
Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into
the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of
its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other
half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already
dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in
mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in
the moment of flight and denial.
"The real reason is that you're not Nick" was what she would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: in which operas are excellently performed. We were also
surprised at seeing large booksellers' shops, with well-stored
shelves; -- music and reading bespeak our approach to the
old world of civilization; for in truth both Australia and
America are new worlds.
The various races of men walking in the streets afford the
most interesting spectacle in Port Louis. Convicts from
India are banished here for life; at present there are about
800, and they are employed in various public works. Before
seeing these people, I had no idea that the inhabitants of
India were such noble-looking figures. Their skin is extremely
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: announces that she is about to devote herself to an enterprise that
will rob her of her young husband's love. Mahomet means to conquer the
world; this his wife has guessed, and she supports him by persuading
the people of Mecca that her husband's attacks of epilepsy are the
effect of his intercourse with the angels (chorus of the first
followers of Mahomet, who come to promise him their aid, C sharp
minor, /sotto voce/). Mahomet goes off to seek the Angel Gabriel
(/recitative/ in F major). His wife encourages the disciples (/aria/,
interrupted by the chorus, gusts of chanting support Kadijah's broad
and majestic air, A major).
"Abdallah, the father of Ayesha,--the only maiden Mahomet has found
Gambara |
