| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: nothing but enjoy himself with might and main.
But by-and-by he began to wonder where all the good things came
from. Then, before long, he fell to pestering the old man with
questions about the matter.
At first the old man put him off with short answers, but the
Fiddler was a master-hand at finding out anything he wanted to
know. He dinned and drummed and worried until flesh and blood
could stand it no longer. So at last the old man said that he
would show him the treasure-house where all his wealth came from,
and at that the Fiddler was tickled beyond measure.
The old man took a key from behind the door and led him out into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: other people, insignificant. He did not know. He did not know. He must
go to his work.)
Knitting her reddish-brown hairy stocking, with her head outlined absurdly
by the gilt frame, the green shawl which she had tossed over the edge of
the frame, and the authenticated masterpiece by Michael Angelo,
Mrs Ramsay smoothed out what had been harsh in her manner a moment
before, raised his head, and kissed her little boy on the forehead.
"Let us find another picture to cut out," she said.
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But what had happened?
Some one had blundered.
To the Lighthouse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: allowed himself to be caught in the revolutions of the gear of these
huge machines can ever become great. If he is a doctor, either he has
practised little or he is an exception--a Bichat who dies young. If a
great merchant, something remains--he is almost Jacques Coeur. Did
Robespierre practise? Danton was an idler who waited. But who,
moreover has ever felt envious of the figures of Danton and
Robespierre, however lofty they were? These men of affairs, /par
excellence/, attract money to them, and hoard it in order to ally
themselves with aristocratic families. If the ambition of the working-
man is that of the small tradesman, here, too, are the same passions.
The type of this class might be either an ambitious bourgeois, who,
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
