| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: portrait; and, finally, the /oetatis suoe XLI./ accords perfectly with
the age inscribed on the picture religiously kept by the Holzschuers
of Nuremberg, and but recently engraved.
The tears stood in Elie Magus' eyes as he looked from one masterpiece
to another. He turned round to La Cibot, "I will give you a commission
of two thousand francs on each of the pictures if you can arrange that
I shall have them for forty thousand francs," he said. La Cibot was
amazed at this good fortune dropped from the sky. Admiration, or, to
be more accurate, delirious joy, had wrought such havoc in the Jew's
brain, that it had actually unsettled his habitual greed, and he fell
headlong into enthusiasm, as you see.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him.
The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a momentary choking
in his throat. He said quite calmly, "Little girl, you will never
forget that true hearted kindness, so long as ever you live!"
Then he went into the study to his friend.
"Little girl!" The very words he had used to Lucy, and, oh, but he proved
himself a friend.
CHAPTER 18
DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
30 September.--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: aristocratic whole. And it is the functioning of the whole mass that
makes the common man what he is.'
'Then there is no common humanity between us all!'
'Just as you like. We all need to fill our bellies. But when it comes
to expressive or executive functioning, I believe there is a gulf and
an absolute one, between the ruling and the serving classes. The two
functions are opposed. And the function determines the individual.'
Connie looked at him with dazed eyes.
'Won't you come on?' she said.
And he started his chair. He had said his say. Now he lapsed into his
peculiar and rather vacant apathy, that Connie found so trying. In the
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