| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: venerable cure of Saint-Lange."
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bouvard, Doctor
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Dionis
The Member for Arcis
Estorade, Madame de l'
Letters of Two Brides
The Member for Arcis
Kergarouet, Comte de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive
hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling
class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a
violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling
class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the
class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at
an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the
bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the
proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois
ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of
comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: words; often they ring like some seraphic instrument revealing the
secrets of the future. When Monsieur Martener praised her for having
faithfully followed a harsh prescription the little angel replied, and
with what a glance!--
"I want to live, dear Monsieur Martener; but less for myself than for
my grandmother, for my Brigaut, for all of you who will grieve at my
death."
The first time she went into the garden on a beautiful sunny day in
November attended by all the household, Madame Auffray asked her if
she was tired.
"No, now that I have no sufferings but those God sends I can bear
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