| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: his friends gathered round him before a comfortable fire, Birotteau
naively related the history of his troubles. His hearers, who were
beginning to weary of the monotony of a country-house, were keenly
interested in a plot so thoroughly in keeping with the life of the
provinces. They all took sides with the abbe against the old maid.
"Don't you see, my dear friend," said Madame de Listomere, "that the
Abbe Troubert wants your apartment?"
Here the historian ought to sketch this lady; but it occurs to him
that even those who are ignorant of Sterne's system of "cognomology,"
cannot pronounce the three words "Madame de Listomere" without
picturing her to themselves as noble and dignified, softening the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: "You do not think he referred to the mark on his own hand?"
"I think not. From the direction of his last glance, I feel
sure he referred to something in the study."
"What did you do? Having summoned the servants, I ran into the study.
But there was absolutely nothing unusual to be seen. The windows were closed
and fastened. He worked with closed windows in the hottest weather.
There is no other door, for the study occupies the end of a narrow wing,
so that no one could possibly have gained access to it, whilst I was
in the library, unseen by me. Had someone concealed himself in the study
earlier in the evening--and I am convinced that it offers no hiding-place--
he could only have come out again by passing through here."
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: the children power
To see what they should see and hear what they should hear,
Though it should have happened three thousand year.
The result was that from time to time, and in different places on
the farm and in the fields and in the country about, they saw and
talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for
instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, another a young
Centurion of a Roman Legion stationed in England, another a
builder and decorator of King Henry VII's time; and so on and so
forth; as I have tried to explain in a book called PUCK OF POOK'S HILL.
A year or so later, the children met Puck once more, and
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