| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: the old staircase to listen to the noise her cousin made. Was he
dressing? Did he still weep? She reached the door.
"My cousin!"
"Yes, cousin."
"Will you breakfast downstairs, or in your room?"
"Where you like."
"How do you feel?"
"Dear cousin, I am ashamed of being hungry."
This conversation, held through the closed door, was like an episode
in a poem to Eugenie.
"Well, then, we will bring your breakfast to your own room, so as not
Eugenie Grandet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: between them. Each of us was to pay sixty francs a year. So there
we were housed, my humble friend and I. We dined together.
Bourgeat, who earned about fifty sous a day, had saved a hundred
crowns or so; he would soon be able to gratify his ambition by
buying a barrel and a horse. On learning of my situation--for he
extracted my secrets with a quiet craftiness and good nature, of
which the remembrance touches my heart to this day, he gave up
for a time the ambition of his whole life; for twenty-two years
he had been carrying water in the street, and he now devoted his
hundred crowns to my future prospects."
Desplein at these words clutched Bianchon's arm tightly. "He gave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "It is not for me to forgive you," Nekhludoff began.
"But all the same, you must leave me," she interrupted, and in
the terribly squinting eyes with which she looked at him
Nekhludoff read the former strained, angry expression.
"Why should I leave you?"
"So."
"But why so?"
She again looked up, as it seemed to him, with the same angry
look.
"Well, then, thus it is," she said. "You must leave me. It is
true what I am saying. I cannot. You just give it up altogether."
Resurrection |
