| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Leicester remained like one stupefied, till he heard the
trampling of the horses, as Varney, who took no time even to
change his dress, threw himself into the saddle, and, followed by
a single servant, set off for Berkshire. At the sound the Earl
started from his seat, and ran to the window, with the momentary
purpose of recalling the unworthy commission with which he had
entrusted one of whom he used to say he knew no virtuous property
save affection to his patron. But Varney was already beyond
call; and the bright, starry firmament, which the age considered
as the Book of Fate, lying spread before Leicester when he opened
the casement, diverted him from his better and more manly
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: But dared not come to her to drag her forth,
And dared not lift his spear against the Priests.
Then all men wept.
There was a Priest of Kysh
Bent with a hundred winters, hairless, blind,
And taloned as the great Snow-Eagle is.
His seat was nearest to the altar-fires,
And he was counted dumb among the Priests.
But, whether Kysh decreed, or from Taman
The impotent tongue found utterance we know
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: repulsed everywhere, he found nothing open to him; and society then
judged him as the government judged him and as he judged himself.
Diard, grievously wounded on the battlefield, was nevertheless not
decorated; the quartermaster, rich as he was, was allowed no place in
public life, and society logically refused him that to which he
pretended in its midst.
Finally, to cap all, the luckless man felt in his own home the
superiority of his wife. Though she used great tact--we might say
velvet softness if the term were admissible--to disguise from her
husband this supremacy, which surprised and humiliated herself, Diard
ended by being affected by it.
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