| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: you'd be rich, Grandpa Fourchon," said Marie.
"Yes," he said, drinking the last glassful the bottle contained, "and
I've played the sham otter so long, the live otters have got angry,
and one of them came right between my legs to-day; Mouche caught it,
and I am to get twenty francs for it."
"I'll bet your otter is made of tow," said Tonsard, looking slyly at
his father-in-law.
"If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list
braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the music stand at Tivoli
(for old Socquard is always scolding about my clothes), I'll let you
keep that money, my daughter; your idea is a good one. I can squeeze
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Here is a passage from Towards Democracy: "As space spreads
everywhere, and all things move and change within it, but it
moves not nor changes,
"So I am the space within the soul, of which the space without
is but the similitude and mental image;
"Comest thou to inhabit me, thou hast the entrance to all
life--death shall no longer divide thee from whom thou
lovest.
"I am the Sun that shines upon all creatures from within--
gazest thou upon me, thou shalt be filled with joy eternal."
Yes, this great sun is there, always shining, but most of the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: and said among other things that she wanted some money.
Seeing the book sticking out of his pocket she added that he ought
to earn more.
"An apprentice's wages are not meant to be enough to keep a wife on,
as a rule, my dear."
"Then you shouldn't have had one."
"Come, Arabella! That's too bad, when you know how it came about."
"I'll declare afore Heaven that I thought what I told you was true.
Doctor Vilbert thought so. It was a good job for you that it
wasn't so!"
"I don't mean that," he said hastily. "I mean before that time.
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