| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: owner of the house in the Rue Saint-Georges and of shares yielding
thirty thousand francs a year; Europe and Asie were quite cunning
enough to persuade her to sell these shares and privately transmit the
money to Lucien. Thus Lucien, proclaiming himself rich through his
sister's liberality, would pay the remainder of the price of the
Rubempre estates. Of this transaction no one could complain. Esther
alone could betray herself; but she would die rather than blink an
eyelash.
Clotilde had appeared with a little pink kerchief round her crane's
neck, so she had won her game at the Hotel de Grandlieu. The shares in
the Omnibus Company were already worth thrice their initial value.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: briskly the next day. Can one only eleven years old, living away from
one's mamma, and never having any time to play, live entirely deprived
of Grimm? Just try it once and you will see what a difficult thing it
is.
Lena's home was in Texas, away up among the little mountains on the
Pedernales River, in a little town called Fredericksburg. They are all
German people who live in Fredericksburg. Of evenings they sit at
little tables along the sidewalk and drink beer and play pinochle and
scat. They are very thrifty people.
Thriftiest among them was Peter Hildesmuller, Lena's father. And that
is why Lena was sent to work in the hotel at the quarries, thirty
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: to flee away therein?' These are those whose resort is hell, and a bad
journey shall it be!
Save for the weak men, and women, and children, who could not
compass any stratagem, and were not guided to a way; these it may be
God will pardon, for God both pardons and forgives.
Whosoever flees in the way of God shall find in the earth many a
spacious refuge; and he who goes forth from his house, fleeing unto
God and His prophet, and then death catches him up,- his hire devolves
on God, and God is forgiving and merciful.
And when ye knock about in the earth, it is no crime to you that
ye come short in prayer, if ye fear that those who disbelieve will set
The Koran |
