| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: properly shutting it. He went
to bed early, and told Pigling upon
no account to disturb him next day
before twelve o'clock.
Pigling Bland sat by the fire,
eating his supper.
All at once at his elbow, a little
voice spoke--"My name is Pig-
wig. Make me more porridge,
please!" Pigling Bland jumped,
and looked round.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: passer-by may chance to observe a little house standing back-ward
from the road. It is such a house as a commoner might use in a
bush village; none could dream that it gave shelter even to a
family chief; yet this is the palace of Malietoa-Natoaitele-
Tamasoalii Laupepa, king of Samoa. As you sit in his company under
this humble shelter, you shall see, between the posts, the new
house of the president. His Majesty himself beholds it daily, and
the tenor of his thoughts may be divined. The fine house of a
Samoan chief is his appropriate attribute; yet, after seventeen
months, the government (well housed themselves) have not yet found
- have not yet sought - a roof-tree for their sovereign. And the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: most delightful sensations, when, as often happens, they inspire none
at all. Nothing is more flattering to a woman's egotism than to divine
this passion, apparently immovable, and these emotions so deep that
they have needed a great length of time to reach the human surface.
These poor men, anchorites in the midst of Paris, have all the
enjoyments of anchorites; and may sometimes succumb to temptations.
But, more often deceived, betrayed, and misunderstood, they are rarely
able to gather the sweet fruits of a love which, to them, is like a
flower dropped from heaven.
One smile from his wife, a single inflection of her voice sufficed to
make Jules Desmarets conceive a passion which was boundless. Happily,
Ferragus |
