| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: about the dearness of beef and cabbage, and frequently have a young
daughter, a taciturn, quiet, sometimes pretty creature; an ugly dog,
and wall-clocks which strike in a melancholy fashion. Then come the
actors whose salaries do not permit them to desert Kolomna, an
independent folk, living, like all artists, for pleasure. They sit in
their dressing-gowns, cleaning their pistols, gluing together all
sorts of things out of cardboard, playing draughts and cards with any
friend who chances to drop in, and so pass away the morning, doing
pretty nearly the same in the evening, with the addition of punch now
and then. After these great people and aristocracy of Kolomna, come
the rank and file. It is as difficult to put a name to them as to
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: " 'Though my profession has familiarized me with such spectacles, by
calling me not infrequently to the bedside of the dying to record
their last wishes, I confess that families in tears and the agonies I
have seen were as nothing in comparison with this lonely and silent
woman in her vast chateau. I heard not the least sound, I did not
perceive the movement which the sufferer's breathing ought to have
given to the sheets that covered her, and I stood motionless, absorbed
in looking at her in a sort of stupor. In fancy I am there still. At
last her large eyes moved; she tried to raise her right hand, but it
fell back on the bed, and she uttered these words, which came like a
breath, for her voice was no longer a voice: "I have waited for you
La Grande Breteche |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them.
Then he go to a builder, and he sell him that house, making an agreement
that he pull it down and take all away within a certain time.
And your police and other authority help him all they can.
And when that owner come back from his holiday in Switzerland
he find only an empty hole where his house had been.
This was all done en regle, and in our work we shall be en regle too.
We shall not go so early that the policemen who have then little
to think of, shall deem it strange. But we shall go after ten
o'clock, when there are many about, and such things would be done
were we indeed owners of the house."
Dracula |
