| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: old comrade.'
The whole thing--the Abbot's red, smiling face amid its fringe of
grey, the general's words, his well-cared-for face with its
self-satisfied smile and the smell of wine from his breath and of
cigars from his whiskers--revolted Father Sergius. He bowed
again to the Abbot and said:
'Your reverence deigned to send for me?'--and stopped, the whole
expression of his face and eyes asking why.
'Yes, to meet the General,' replied the Abbot.
'Your reverence, I left the world to save myself from
temptation,' said Father Sergius, turning pale and with quivering
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: catarrh. Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life
is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts
with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down
at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future
look so bright as surveying it through a glass of
chambertin."
"That's all very well," replied D'Artagnan; "but I am tired
of fearing when I open a fresh bottle that the wine may come
from the cellar of Milady."
"You are very fastidious," said Athos; "such a beautiful
woman!"
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: of responsibility for their helpless. And the Bureau was far too
interested in political matters to provide the care the plantation
owners had once given.
Abandoned negro children ran like frightened animals about the town
until kind-hearted white people took them into their kitchens to
raise. Aged country darkies, deserted by their children,
bewildered and panic stricken in the bustling town, sat on the
curbs and cried to the ladies who passed: "Mistis, please Ma'm,
write mah old Marster down in Fayette County dat Ah's up hyah.
He'll come tek dis ole nigger home agin. 'Fo' Gawd, Ah done got
nuff of dis freedom!"
Gone With the Wind |
