| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: 'Manuscript.'--Will the horse get over it?" asked Lousteau with a
laugh, while Gatien was wondering whether to be angry or not.
"The horse!" said Gatien.
At this moment Madame de la Baudraye came in, dressed in a velvet
gown, and accompanied by her mother, who shot angry flashes at
Lousteau. It would have been too rash for Dinah to seem cold or severe
to Lousteau in Gatien's presence; and Etienne, taking advantage of
this, offered his arm to the supposed Lucretia; however, she declined
it.
"Do you mean to cast off a man who has vowed to live for you?" said
he, walking close beside her. "I shall stop at Sancerre and go home
The Muse of the Department |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: into judgment?
JOB 22:5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
JOB 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and
stripped the naked of their clothing.
JOB 22:7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast
withholden bread from the hungry.
JOB 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the
honourable man dwelt in it.
JOB 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the
fatherless have been broken.
JOB 22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: and there was a scandalized murmur at my heartless promptitude.
What they wanted to keep that body hanging about for I can't guess.
Embalm it, maybe. But I had also heard another, and a very ominous,
murmur on the deck below. My friends the wood-cutters
were likewise scandalized, and with a better show of reason--
though I admit that the reason itself was quite inadmissible.
Oh, quite! I had made up my mind that if my late helmsman
was to be eaten, the fishes alone should have him.
He had been a very second-rate helmsman while alive, but now
he was dead he might have become a first-class temptation,
and possibly cause some startling trouble. Besides, I was
Heart of Darkness |
