| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: judicial observations to devote himself to the second course, which he
considered highly important. During his absence, which was brief,
Gambara leaned across to address Andrea.
"Our worthy host," said he, in an undertone, "threatens to regale us
to-day with a dish of his own concocting, which I recommend you to
avoid, though his wife has had an eye on him. The good man has a mania
for innovations. He ruined himself by experiments, the last of which
compelled him to fly from Rome without a passport--a circumstance he
does not talk about. After purchasing the good-will of a popular
restaurant he was trusted to prepare a banquet given by a lately made
Cardinal, whose household was not yet complete. Giardini fancied he
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: OLD CROMWELL.
Here is master Bowser come to know if you have
dispatched his petition for the Lords of the counsel
or no.
CROMWELL.
Father, I have; please you to call him in.
OLD CROMWELL.
That's well said, Tom; a good lad, Tom.
[Enter Master Bowser.]
BOWSER.
Now, Master Cromwell, have you dispatched
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: an effort she shook off the fear of the passing weakness. He
should have his reward. Her woman's love and her woman's honour
overcame the faltering distrust of that unknown future waiting
for her in the darkness of the river.
"No, you will not return," muttered Mrs. Almayer, prophetically.
"Without you he will not go, and if he remains here--" She waved
her hand towards the lights of "Almayer's Folly," and the
unfinished sentence died out in a threatening murmur.
The two women had met behind the house, and now were walking
slowly together towards the creek where all the canoes were
moored. Arrived at the fringe of bushes they stopped by a common
Almayer's Folly |
