| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: themselves to be ridiculed by the diplomatic, who make them dance for
them by pulling what is the main string of these puppets--their
vanity. Thus, a day comes when those who had nothing have something,
and those who had something have nothing. The latter look at their
comrades who have achieved positions as cunning fellows; their hearts
may be bad, but their heads are strong. "He is very strong!" is the
supreme praise accorded to those who have attained /quibuscumque
viis/, political rank, a woman, or a fortune. Amongst them are to be
found certain young men who play this /role/ by commencing with having
debts. Naturally, these are more dangerous than those who play it
without a farthing.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: melancholy, and the female chorus in two divisions, and in
/imitation/, with a suggestion of the Moorish coloring of Spain. Here
the terrifying music is softened to gentler hues, like a storm dying
away, and ends in the florid prettiness of a duet wholly unlike
anything that has come before it. After the turmoil of a camp full of
errant heroes, we have a picture of love. Poet! I thank thee! My heart
could not have borne much more. If I could not here and there pluck
the daisies of a French light opera, if I could not hear the gentle
wit of a woman able to love and to charm, I could not endure the
terrible deep note on which Bertram comes in, saying to his son: '/Si
je la permets/!' when Robert had promised the princess he adores that
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Billina laughed; or at least she made the peculiar cackle that served
her for a laugh.
"No wonder I couldn't find the Tin Woodman," she said; "and no wonder the
magic belt didn't make him appear, or the King couldn't find him, either!"
"What do you mean?" questioned Dorothy.
"Why, the Prince had him in his pocket," cried Billina, cackling again.
"I did not!" protested little Evring. "I only took the whistle."
"Well, then, watch me," returned the hen, and reaching out a claw she
touched the whistle and said "Ev."
Swish!
"Good afternoon," said the Tin Woodman, taking off his funnel cap and
Ozma of Oz |
