| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: others, for I am not of a cruel nature, I love to kill nothing but fish.
And, now, to your question concerning your host. To speak truly, he is
not to me a good companion, for most of his conceits were either
scripture jests, or lascivious jests, for which I count no man witty: for
the devil will help a man, that way inclined, to the first; and his own
corrupt nature, which he always carries with him, to the latter. But a
companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out
the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man, and indeed
such a companion should have his charges borne; and to such company
I hope to bring you this night; for at Trout-hall, not far from this place,
where I purpose to lodge to-night, there is usually an Angler that proves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: "Can't I? Then tell me,--tell me, Gaudissart, if I'm such a goose why
do you love me?"
"Just because you are a goose,--a sublime goose! Listen, Jenny. See
here, I am going to undertake the 'Globe,' the 'Movement,' the
'Children,' the insurance business, and some of my old articles Paris;
instead of earning a miserable eight thousand a year, I'll bring back
twenty thousand at least from each trip."
"Unlace me, Gaudissart, and do it right; don't tighten me."
"Yes, truly," said the traveller, complacently; "I shall become a
shareholder in the newspapers, like Finot, one of my friends, the son
of a hatter, who now has thirty thousand francs income, and is going
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: magnetic needle suspended over it rapidly to rest; and that on
causing the disk to rotate the magnetic needle rotated along with
it. When both were quiescent, there was not the slightest measurable
attraction or repulsion exerted between the needle and the disk;
still when in motion the disk was competent to drag after it, not
only a light needle, but a heavy magnet. The question had been
probed and investigated with admirable skill both by Arago and
Ampere, and Poisson had published a theoretic memoir on the subject;
but no cause could be assigned for so extraordinary an action.
It had also been examined in this country by two celebrated men,
Mr. Babbage and Sir John Herschel; but it still remained a mystery.
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