| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: The justice of the peace sentenced her to two
months' imprisonment. The landowner whose
oats had been stolen was among the audi-
ence. When the judge adjourned the court the
landowner approached, and shook hands, and the
judge entered into conversation with him. The
next case was about a stolen samovar. Then
there was a trial about some timber which had
been cut, to the detriment of the landowner.
Some peasants were being tried for having as-
saulted the constable of the district.
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: in the hotel de Poitiers a lady masked in virtue? The question is
difficult to decide; and the honor of women demands that it be left,
as it were, in litigation.
At the moment when the Marie of the dream may have been about to
forget her high dignity as mistress, the lover felt himself seized by
an iron hand, and the sour voice of the grand provost said to him:--
"Come, midnight Christian, who seeks God on the roofs, wake up!"
The young man saw the black face of Tristan l'Hermite above him, and
recognized his sardonic smile; then, on the steps of the corkscrew
staircase, he saw Cornelius, his sister, and behind them the provost
guard. At that sight, and observing the diabolical faces expressing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: helpless. When they saw him on the point of death they thought to
themselves: "Now is the time to pay off old grudges." So the Boar
came up and drove at him with his tusks; then a Bull gored him
with his horns; still the Lion lay helpless before them: so the
Ass, feeling quite safe from danger, came up, and turning his tail
to the Lion kicked up his heels into his face. "This is a double
death," growled the Lion.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
The Ass and the Lapdog
A Farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of
burden: among them was his favourite Ass, that was always well fed
Aesop's Fables |
