| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: So her little son or daughter shall not miss a
mother's care.
And I'll share a fellow feeling with the saddest
of my kin,
The dad beside the gateway of the home he
can't go in.
Oh, we laugh and joke together and the mother
tries to be
Brave and sunny in her prison, and she thinks
she's fooling me;
And I do my bravest smiling and I feign a
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "No, I don't" - she spoke it rather shortly. And then she added:
"He understands - understands everything."
The young man was on the point of saying jocosely: "And I don't -
is that it?" But these words, in time, changed themselves to
others slightly less trivial: "Do you suppose he understands his
wife?"
Miss Fancourt made no direct answer, but after a moment's
hesitation put it: "Isn't she charming?"
"Not in the least!"
"Here he comes. Now you must know him," she went on. A small
group of visitors had gathered at the other end of the gallery and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. Out of
humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people;
out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all,
that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed,
a poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event
like Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation,
he returned in the evening through the boulevards, and caught
a glimpse through the branches of the trees of the fathomless
space beyond, the nameless gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery,
all that which is only human seemed very pretty indeed to him.
He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at
Les Miserables |
