| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: don't like meddling in other people's affairs.'
"Now hear what happened next. Some mischievous person drew a
caricature of Byelikov walking along in his goloshes with his
trousers tucked up, under his umbrella, with Varinka on his arm;
below, the inscription 'Anthropos in love.' The expression was
caught to a marvel, you know. The artist must have worked for
more than one night, for the teachers of both the boys' and
girls' high-schools, the teachers of the seminary, the government
officials, all received a copy. Byelikov received one, too. The
caricature made a very painful impression on him.
"We went out together; it was the first of May, a Sunday, and all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: Moreover, the beginners have one very precious advantage for the
observer: they work by day, work even in the sun, whereas the old
ones weave only at night, at unseasonable hours. The first show us
the secrets of their looms without much difficulty; the others
conceal them from us. Work starts in July, a couple of hours
before sunset.
The spinstresses of my enclosure then leave their daytime hiding-
places, select their posts and begin to spin, one here, another
there. There are many of them; we can choose where we please. Let
us stop in front of this one, whom we surprise in the act of laying
the foundations of the structure. Without any appreciable order,
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: different qualities, this quality, silently present, will educate
his hand and eye.
But, before all its other advantages - charm, loveliness, or
proximity to Paris - comes the great fact that it is already
colonised. The institution of a painters' colony is a work of time
and tact. The population must be conquered. The innkeeper has to
be taught, and he soon learns, the lesson of unlimited credit; he
must be taught to welcome as a favoured guest a young gentleman in
a very greasy coat, and with little baggage beyond a box of colours
and a canvas; and he must learn to preserve his faith in customers
who will eat heartily and drink of the best, borrow money to buy
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