| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: land of gluttons. And finally, you have myself, who as the father
of the company very properly play as Pantaloon the roles of father.
Sometimes, it is true, I am a deluded husband, and sometimes an
ignorant, self-sufficient doctor. But it is rarely that I find it
necessary to call myself other than Pantaloon. For the rest, I am
the only one who has a name - a real name. It is Binet, monsieur.
"And now for the ladies... First in order of seniority we have
Madame there." He waved one of his great hands towards a buxom,
smiling blonde of five-and-forty, who was seated on the lowest of
the steps of the travelling house. "She is our Duegne, or Mother,
or Nurse, as the case requires. She is known quite simply and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: moss, a seaweed, studying their mysteries; seeking perhaps a rhythm in
their fragrant depths, like a bee its honey. He often admired, without
purpose, and without explaining his pleasure to himself, the slender
lines on the petals of dark flowers, the delicacy of their rich tunics
of gold or purple, green or azure, the fringes, so profusely
beautiful, of their calyxes or leaves, their ivory or velvet textures.
Later, a thinker as well as a poet, he would detect the reason of
these innumerable differences in a single nature, by discovering the
indication of unknown faculties; for from day to day he made progress
in the interpretation of the Divine Word writing upon all things here
below.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "How do you do?" he said, with the air of a very busy man,
receiving Nekhludoff standing, and at once starting on the
business. "I know this case. As soon as I saw the names I
recollected this unfortunate business," he said, taking up the
petition and showing it to Nekhludoff. "And I am much indebted to
you for reminding me of it. It is the over-zealousness of the
provincial authorities."
Nekhludoff stood silent, looking with no kindly feelings at the
immovable, pale mask of a face before him.
"And I shall give orders that these measures should he revoked
and the people reinstated in their homes."
Resurrection |
