| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: Gordon rejoined.
"My dear Gordon," Longueville exclaimed, "I don't see what it
signifies to you that I should find Miss Vivian out!
When a man 's in love, what need he care what other people think
of the loved object?"
"It would certainly be a pity to care too much. But there is some excuse
for him in the loved object being, as you say, complicated."
"Nonsense! That 's no excuse. The loved object is always complicated."
Gordon walked on in silence a moment.
"Well, then, I don't care a button what you think!"
"Bravo! That 's the way a man should talk," cried Longueville.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own
desires. He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in
peace.
Villefort, after having received M. de Salvieux' letter,
embraced Renee, kissed the marquise's hand, and shaken that
of the marquis, started for Paris along the Aix road.
Old Dantes was dying with anxiety to know what had become of
Edmond. But we know very well what had become of Edmond.
Chapter 10
The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling --
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: the edge of that hair-shirt. She says she could not have that smiling
air you know she always has unless she practised these austerities. I
tell you this," added the old woman, sinking her voice, "so that you
may repeat it to the doctor that Monsieur Roubaud has gone to fetch.
If they could prevent my daughter from continuing these penances,
perhaps they might still save her, though death has laid its hand upon
her head. See for yourself! Ah! I must be strong indeed to have borne
so many things these fifteen years."
The old woman took her grandson's hand and passed it over her forehead
and cheeks as if the child's touch shed a healing balm there; then she
kissed it with an affection the secret of which belongs to
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