| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: "Ah! Indeed, you are perfection. And--how well you know me."
She paused and seemed to be searching for words; then she said
abruptly: "M. Lamar, I wish you to do me a favor."
"Anything, Le Mire, in or out of reason."
Again she hesitated; then:
"Do not call me Le Mire."
I laughed.
"But certainly, Senora Ramal. And what is the favor?"
"That."
"That--"
"Do not call me Le Mire--nor Senora Ramal."
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: which can appreciate and enjoy the contemplation of that which is
lofty and heroic, and that which is useful indeed, though not to the
purses merely or the mouths of men, but to their intellects and
spirits; that highest philosophy which, though she can (as has been
sneeringly said of her) bake no bread, she--and she alone, can at
least do this--make men worthy to eat the bread which God has given
them.
I am bound to speak on such subjects, because I have never yet met,
or read of, the human company who did not require, now and then at
least, being reminded of such times and such personages--of
whatsoever things are just, pure, true, lovely, and of good report,
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: people, and buried with savage circumstance in a tin trunk in the
top of a tree.
Two sons she had borne him, and when the Company promoted him, he
journeyed with them still deeper into the vastness of the North-
West Territory to a place called Sin Rock, where he took charge of
a new post in a more important fur field. Here he spent several
lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the
unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly
worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care.
Then his eyes chanced upon Lit-lit.
"Lit-lit--well, she is Lit-lit," was the fashion in which he
|
