| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Come on, my Lords; here will I host to night.
[Exeunt.]
ACT II. SCENE I. The Same. Gardens of the Castle.
[Enter Lodowick.]
LODOWICK.
I might perceive his eye in her eye lost,
His ear to drink her sweet tongue's utterance,
And changing passion, like inconstant clouds
That rack upon the carriage of the winds,
Increase and die in his disturbed cheeks.
Lo, when she blushed, even then did he look pale,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: eyes are darkened by a cloud or raised to heaven after long
contemplation of earth, when my lips make no reply to your words or
your devotion, do not ask me again, "Of what are you thinking?"
*****
Dear Natalie, I ceased to write some days ago; these memories were too
bitter for me. Still, I owe you an account of the events which
followed this catastrophe; they need few words. When a life is made up
of action and movement it is soon told, but when it passes in the
higher regions of the soul its story becomes diffuse. Henriette's
letter put the star of hope before my eyes. In this great shipwreck I
saw an isle on which I might be rescued. To live at Clochegourde with
The Lily of the Valley |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: more he shut his eyes, and the black faces reap-
peared. Towards the evening of the next day
he rose and went, with hardly any strength left,
to a public-house. There he ordered a drink, and
repeated his demands over and over again, but
no quantity of liquor could make him intoxicated.
He was sitting at a table, and swallowed silently
one glass after another.
A police officer came in. "Who are you?" he
asked Stepan.
"I am the man who murdered all the Dobrot-
The Forged Coupon |
