| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: disapproval.
"They get drunk, and kill unobjectionable young men. I should not
forgive them on any account," she said.
"Now, that's a thing I cannot understand," said the Count.
"I know that you never can understand what I say," the Countess
began, and turning to Nekhludoff, she added:
"Everybody understands except my husband. I say I am sorry for
the mother, and I do not wish him to be contented, having killed
a man." Then her son, who had been silent up to then, took the
murderer's part, and rudely attacked his mother, arguing that an
officer could not behave in any other way, because his
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: any foundation but in the imagination, especially at-first.
I now began to consider seriously with myself concerning my own
case, and how I should dispose of myself; that is to say, whether I
should resolve to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as
many of my neighbours did. I have set this particular down so fully,
because I know not but it may be of moment to those who come after
me, if they come to be brought to the same distress, and to the same
manner of making their choice; and therefore I desire this account
may pass with them rather for a direction to themselves to act by than
a history of my actings, seeing it may not he of one farthing value to
them to note what became of me.
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: nor know that he had met with a champion capable of putting an
end to the persecution.
"Then, M. Goriot sitting there is the father of a countess," said
Mme. Vauquer in a low voice.
"And of a baroness," answered Rastignac.
"That is about all he is capable of," said Bianchon to Rastignac;
"I have taken a look at his head; there is only one bump--the
bump of Paternity; he must be an ETERNAL FATHER."
Eugene was too intent on his thoughts to laugh at Bianchon's
joke. He determined to profit by Mme. de Beauseant's counsels,
and was asking himself how he could obtain the necessary money.
Father Goriot |
