| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: the future for her, I help her to atone the past, I doctor her for
imaginary ailments, and often enough I cure her of real ones. Half
the secrets of Seville are in my hands; did I choose to speak I
could set a score of noble houses to broil and bloodshed. But I do
not speak, I am paid to keep silent; and when I am not paid, still
I keep silent for my credit's sake. Hundreds of women think me
their saviour, I know them for my dupes. But mark you, I do not
push this game too far. A love philtre--of coloured water--I may
give at a price, but not a poisoned rose. These they must seek
elsewhere. For the rest, in my way I am honest. I take the world
as it comes, that is all, and, as women will be fools, I profit by
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: than he had yet displayed, "Quick, Doctor, quick, I am dying!
I feel that I have but a few minutes, and then I must go
back to death, or worse! Wet my lips with brandy again.
I have something that I must say before I die. Or before my
poor crushed brain dies anyhow. Thank you! It was that night
after you left me, when I implored you to let me go away.
I couldn't speak then, for I felt my tongue was tied.
But I was as sane then, except in that way, as I am now.
I was in an agony of despair for a long time after you left me,
it seemed hours. Then there came a sudden peace to me.
My brain seemed to become cool again, and I realized where I was.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: each other during this stay of Nekhludoff's in Petersburg.
CHAPTER XXIV.
MARIETTE TEMPTS NEKHLUDOFF.
When they left the Senate, Nekhludoff and the advocate walked on
together, the advocate having given the driver of his carriage
orders to follow them. The advocate told Nekhludoff the story of
the chief of a Government department, about whom the Senators had
been talking: how the thing was found out, and how the man, who
according to law should have been sent to the mines, had been
appointed Governor of a town in Siberia. Then he related with
particular pleasure how several high-placed persons stole a lot
Resurrection |
