| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: air.
"Yes, from a three-francs-sixty-sous seat among the gods," replied the
landscape painter; "just as you have seen Paris in the rue Croix-des-
Petits-Champs, without knowing anything about it. What did they give
at the Opera when you were there?"
"Guillaume Tell."
"Well," said Leon, "Matilde's grand DUO must have delighted you. What
do you suppose that charming singer did when she left the stage?"
"She--well, what?"
"She ate two bloody mutton-chops which her servant had ready for her."
"Pooh! nonsense!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: For lacke of other pourveance.
And otherwhile of his falshede
He feignede him to conne arede
Of thing which after scholde falle;
Wherof among hise sleyhtes alle 930
He hath the lewed folk deceived,
So that the betre he was received.
Lo now, thurgh what creacion
He hath deificacion,
And cleped is the god of wit
To suche as be the foles yit.
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "Then why did you go through the farce of having Jimmie arrested as
a burglar?" Kent demanded.
"So that Barbara might win her wager," promptly. Kent stared at
her incredulously.
"Do you mean that, notwithstanding the risk to which you were
subjecting him with his weak heart, you kept up the farce simply
that Barbara might win an idiotic wager?" Kent asked.
Helen passed one nervous hand over the other; her palms were hot
and dry, and two hectic spots had appeared in each white cheek.
"Jimmie was quite well Monday night," she protested. "He - he - had
some heart medicine with him."
The Red Seal |
