| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: respect, wherever he might be. To see its grand master at the galleys
is, to the faithful tribe, only one of those misfortunes for which
providence is responsible, and which does not release the Devorants
from obeying a power created by them to be above them. It is but the
passing exile of their legitimate king, always a king for them. Thus
we see the romantic prestige attaching to the name of Ferragus and to
that of the Devorants completely dissipated.
As for the THIRTEEN, they were all men of the stamp of Trelawney, Lord
Byron's friend, who was, they say, the original of his "Corsair." They
were all fatalists, men of nerve and poesy, weary of leading flat and
empty lives, driven toward Asiatic enjoyments by forces all the more
Ferragus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: rulers of Japan. And when we see all round us these brisk
intelligent students, with their strange foreign air, we
should never forget how Yoshida marched afoot from Choshu to
Yeddo, and from Yeddo to Nangasaki, and from Nangasaki back
again to Yeddo; how he boarded the American ship, his dress
stuffed with writing material; nor how he languished in
prison, and finally gave his death, as he had formerly given
all his life and strength and leisure, to gain for his native
land that very benefit which she now enjoys so largely. It
is better to be Yoshida and perish, than to be only Sakuma
and yet save the hide. Kusakabe, of Satzuma, has said the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: dangerous woman. She is the most dangerous woman I know. You
don't realise what you're doing.
LADY WINDERMERE. It is right that I should see her.
LORD WINDERMERE. My child, you may be on the brink of a great
sorrow. Don't go to meet it. It is absolutely necessary that I
should see her before you do.
LADY WINDERMERE. Why should it be necessary?
[Enter PARKER.]
PARKER. Mrs. Erlynne.
[Enter MRS. ERLYNNE.]
[Exit PARKER.]
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