| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,
And be not of my holy vows afraid:
That's to you sworn, to none was ever said;
For feasts of love I have been call'd unto,
Till now did ne'er invite, nor never woo.
'All my offences that abroad you see
Are errors of the blood, none of the mind;
Love made them not; with acture they may be,
Where neither party is nor true nor kind:
They sought their shame that so their shame did find;
And so much less of shame in me remains,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: not for the amusement she gets out of her books. Come, don't worry
yourself; she loves nobody but you. You ought to be very glad that she
goes into these enthusiasms for the corsairs of Byron and the heroes
of Walter Scott and your own Germans, Egmont, Goethe, Werther,
Schiller, and all the other 'ers.'"
"Well, madame, what do you say to that?" asked Dumay, respectfully,
alarmed at Madame Mignon's silence.
"Modeste is not only inclined to love, but she loves some man,"
answered the mother, obstinately.
"Madame, my life is at stake, and you must allow me--not for my sake,
but for my wife, my colonel, for all of us--to probe this matter to
Modeste Mignon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: of a nigger republic in the West Indies by raising
a loan, and then repudiating all the previous loans.
Another wanted me to buy a paper for him, in which he was
to support all my enterprises. Another wanted to start
a bank--I apparently to find the money, and he the brains.
One chap wanted me to finance a theatrical syndicate--he
had a bag full of photographs of an actress all eyes
and teeth and hair,--and another chap had a scheme all
worked out for getting a concession from Spain for one
of the Caroline Islands, and putting up a factory there
for making porpoise-hide leather.
The Market-Place |
