| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: picnic party to visit Pere-la-Chaise, or by lovers who make
it their rendezvous.
The two coffins were placed on trestles previously prepared
for their reception in the right-hand crypt belonging to the
Saint-Meran family. Villefort, Franz, and a few near
relatives alone entered the sanctuary.
As the religious ceremonies had all been performed at the
door, and there was no address given, the party all
separated; Chateau-Renaud, Albert, and Morrel, went one way,
and Debray and Beauchamp the other. Franz remained with M.
de Villefort; at the gate of the cemetery Morrel made an
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: must have picked up the white envelope, there was no other feasible
explanation of its disappearance. But what had attracted his
attention to the envelope - the red seal with the big letter " B"
was its only identifying mark. If Helen had only told him the
contents of the envelope!
Kent struck his clenched fist in his left hand in wrath; something
must be done, he could not stand there all night. Although it was
through no fault of his own that he had lost the envelope
entrusted to his care, he was still responsible to Helen for its
disappearance. She must be told that it was gone, however
unpleasant the task.
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: dear, and, having there arrived, we shall stop?
True.
My fear is that all those other things, which, as we say, are dear for the
sake of another, are illusions and deceptions only, but where that first
principle is, there is the true ideal of friendship. Let me put the matter
thus: Suppose the case of a great treasure (this may be a son, who is more
precious to his father than all his other treasures); would not the father,
who values his son above all things, value other things also for the sake
of his son? I mean, for instance, if he knew that his son had drunk
hemlock, and the father thought that wine would save him, he would value
the wine?
Lysis |
