| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: and I am to get twenty francs for it."
"I'll bet your otter is made of tow," said Tonsard, looking slyly at
his father-in-law.
"If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list
braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the music stand at Tivoli
(for old Socquard is always scolding about my clothes), I'll let you
keep that money, my daughter; your idea is a good one. I can squeeze
that rich young fellow at Les Aigues; may be he'll take to otters."
"Go and get another bottle," said Tonsard to his daughter. "If your
father really had an otter, he would show it to us," he added,
speaking to his wife and trying to touch up Fourchon.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
She wandered in the land of clouds thro' valleys dark, listning
Dolors & lamentations: waiting oft beside the dewy grave
She stood in silence, listning to the voices of the ground,
Till to her own grave plot she came, & there she sat down.
And heard this voice of sorrow breathed from the hollow pit.
Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction?
Or the glistening Eye to the poison of a smile!
Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand fighting men in ambush lie!
Or an Eye of gifts & graces showring fruits & coined gold!
Poems of William Blake |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: hurrying down through the flat plain, and in its
current came the body of a drowned bear-cub, an alien
from the high country.
These things should have been as signs to our
jaded spirits that we were nearly at the end of our
penance, but discipline had seared over our souls, and
we rode on unknowing.
Then we came on a real indication. It did not
amount to much. Merely a dry river-bed; but the
farther bank, instead of being flat, cut into a low swell
of land. We skirted it. Another swell of land, like
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