| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: Nature itself. Come nearer, and you will see the work more distinctly;
if too far off it disappears. See! there, at that point, it is, I
think, most remarkable." And with the end of his brush he pointed to a
spot of clear light color.
Porbus struck the old man on the shoulder, turning to Poussin as he
did so, and said, "Do you know that he is one of our greatest
painters?"
"He is a poet even more than he is a painter," answered Poussin
gravely.
"There," returned Porbus, touching the canvas, "is the ultimate end of
our art on earth."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: all the chores so conscientiously: feed and water and bed the horses,
milk the cows, and look after the pigs. When supper was over,
it took them a long while to get the cold out of their bones.
While grandmother and I washed the dishes and grandfather read
his paper upstairs, Jake and Otto sat on the long bench behind
the stove, `easing' their inside boots, or rubbing mutton tallow
into their cracked hands.
Every Saturday night we popped corn or made taffy,
and Otto Fuchs used to sing, `For I Am a Cowboy and Know
I've Done Wrong,' or, `Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairee.'
He had a good baritone voice and always led the singing when we
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: the party; there was even one apiece, embittering the thought of
his profusion, for Mr. Moreen and Ulick. "They're all like that,"
was Morgan's comment; "at the very last, just when we think we've
landed them they're back in the deep sea!"
Morgan's comments in these days were more and more free; they even
included a large recognition of the extraordinary tenderness with
which he had been treated while Pemberton was away. Oh yes, they
couldn't do enough to be nice to him, to show him they had him on
their mind and make up for his loss. That was just what made the
whole thing so sad and caused him to rejoice after all in
Pemberton's return - he had to keep thinking of their affection
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