| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: The Suffet, meanwhile, had bored through the walls and reached the
citadel. The smoke suddenly disappeared before a gust of wind,
discovering the horizon as far as the walls of Carthage; he even
thought that he could distinguish people watching on the platform of
Eschmoun; then, bringing back his eyes, he perceived thirty crosses of
extravagant size on the shore of the Lake, to the left.
In fact, to render them still more frightful, they had been
constructed with tent-poles fastened end to end, and the thirty
corpses of the Ancients appeared high up in the sky. They had what
looked like white butterflies on their breasts; these were the
feathers of the arrows which had been shot at them from below.
Salammbo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: Not but what I like to have people staying with me for a few days,
or even for a few weeks, should they be as anspruchslos as I am myself,
and content with simple joys; only, any one who comes here and would
be happy must have something in him; if he be a mere blank creature,
empty of head and heart, he will very probably find it dull.
I should like my house to be often <36> full if I could find people
capable of enjoying themselves. They should be welcomed and sped
with equal heartiness; for truth compels me to confess that,
though it pleases me to see them come, it pleases me just as much
to see them go.
On some very specially divine days, like today, I have actually
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: FIRST SERVANT.
O! yes, my lord, but very idle words;
For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,
Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door,
And rail upon the hostess of the house,
And say you would present her at the leet,
Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts.
Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
SLY.
Ay, the woman's maid of the house.
THIRD SERVANT.
The Taming of the Shrew |
