| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: as though he knew something.
At the New Villa they burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks
in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by
Obrutchanovo. One morning the engineer's wife, Elena Ivanovna,
and her little daughter drove to the village in a carriage with
yellow wheels and a pair of dark bay ponies; both mother and
daughter were wearing broad-brimmed straw hats, bent down over
their ears.
This was exactly at the time when they were carting manure, and
the blacksmith Rodion, a tall, gaunt old man, bareheaded and
barefooted, was standing near his dirty and repulsive-looking
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: stones, searches the brushwood; and often he is stirred with a
pleasurable excitement, when he lights upon some ingenious work of
art, discovered unawares. Happy are the simple of heart whose
ambition is satisfied with such treasure-trove! I wish them all
the joys which it has brought me and which it will continue to
bring me, despite the vexations of life, which grow ever more
bitter as the years follow their swift downward course.
Should the seekers rummage among the wild grasses in the osier-beds
and copses, I wish them the delight of finding the wonderful object
that, at this moment, lies before my eyes. It is the work of a
Spider, the nest of the Banded Epeira (Epeira fasciata, LATR.).
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: proper and essential to the man. Without appearing to differ,
in any tangible way, from other people's clothes, there was yet a
wide and rich gravity about them that must have been a characteristic
of the wearer, since it could not be defined as pertaining either
to the cut or material. His gold-headed cane, too,--a serviceable
staff, of dark polished wood,--had similar traits, and, had it chosen
to take a walk by itself, would have been recognized anywhere as a
tolerably adequate representative of its master. This character
--which showed itself so strikingly in everything about him, and the
effect of which we seek to convey to the reader--went no deeper
than his station, habits of life, and external circumstances.
House of Seven Gables |
