| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: ascertained by learned astrologers; at another that one should abstain
from begetting children on feast days, because it was a great
undertaking; and he observed the feasts like a man who wished to enter
into Paradise without consent. Sometimes he would pretend that if by
chance the parents were not in a state of grace, the children
commenced on the date of St. Claire would be blind, of St. Gatien had
the gout, of St. Agnes were scaldheaded, of St. Roch had the plague;
sometimes that those begotten in February were chilly; in March, too
turbulent; in April, were worth nothing at all; and that handsome boys
were conceived in May. In short, he wished his child to be perfect, to
have his hair of two colours; and for this it was necessary that all
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: Note 2, "A PERIWIG'D LORD OF LONDON." The first Pitt.
Note 3, "CATHAY." There must be some omission in General
Stewart's charming HISTORY OF THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS, a book
that might well be republished and continued; or it scarce
appears how our friend could have got to China.
HEATHER ALE
A GALLOWAY LEGEND
FROM the bonny bells of heather
They brewed a drink long-syne,
Was sweeter far than honey,
Was stronger far than wine.
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: driven two women to their deaths? Don't think such
a thing, Humphrey. After my experience I should consider it
too much of a burlesque to go to church and take a wife.
In the words of Job, 'I have made a covenant with mine eyes;
when then should I think upon a maid?'"
"No, Mr. Clym, don't fancy that about driving two women
to their deaths. You shouldn't say it."
"Well, we'll leave that out," said Yeobright. "But anyhow
God has set a mark upon me which wouldn't look well
in a love-making scene. I have two ideas in my head,
and no others. I am going to keep a night-school;
Return of the Native |
