| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: holy thoughts and lips that repeat only pious words. She welcomed
her brother's return with smiles, not knowing, in the purity of
her youth, that far away a courtesan had sacrificed her own
happiness at the mere invocation of her name.
I remained for some time in their happy family, full of indulgent
care for one who brought them the convalescence of his heart.
I returned to Paris, where I wrote this story just as it had been
told me. It has only one merit, which will perhaps be denied it;
that is, that it is true.
I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like
Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did--far from it;
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: own planet yet, but he did not trouble me at that time to proceed to an
explanation, being too anxious to pursue the details of this mad inversion
of all his ideas.
"He reverted to the question of weather, and I tried to describe the
perpetually changing sky, and snow, and frost and hurricanes. 'But when
the night comes,' he ed, 'is it not cold?'
"I told him it was colder than by day. "'And does not your atmosphere
freeze?'
"I told him not; that it was never cold enough for that, because our
nights were so short.
"'Not even liquefy?'
The First Men In The Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: buried!" It laughed and chuckled
when it heard Timmy's story.
While Timmy was confined to
bed, it 'ticed him to eat quantities
--"But how shall I ever get out
through that hole unless I thin
myself? My wife will be anxious!"
"Just another nut--or two nuts;
let me crack them for you," said
the Chipmunk. Timmy Tiptoes
grew fatter and fatter!
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