| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: rude, romping, and boisterous--they were sent to Aunt Margaret to
be kept quiet, or rather that their noise might be removed out of
hearing; those who were indisposed were sent with the prospect of
being nursed; those who were stubborn, with the hope of their
being subdued by the kindness of Aunt Margaret's discipline;--in
short, she had all the various duties of a mother, without the
credit and dignity of the maternal character. The busy scene of
her various cares is now over. Of the invalids and the robust,
the kind and the rough, the peevish and pleased children, who
thronged her little parlour from morning to night, not one now
remains alive but myself, who, afflicted by early infirmity, was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: was supported by two footmen.
I write you these details from her house, in the midst of my
tears and under the lamp which burns sadly beside a dinner which
I can not touch, as you can imagine, but which Nanine has got for
me, for I have eaten nothing for twenty-four hours.
My life can not retain these sad impressions for long, for my
life is not my own any more than Marguerite's was hers; that is
why I give you all these details on the very spot where they
occurred, in the fear, if a long time elapsed between them and
your return, that I might not be able to give them to you with
all their melancholy exactitude.
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: you in yo' life. One uv 'em's light en t'other one is
dark. One is rich en t'other is po'. You's gwyne to
marry de po' one fust en de rich one by en by. You
wants to keep 'way fum de water as much as you kin,
en don't run no resk, 'kase it's down in de bills dat
you's gwyne to git hung."
When I lit my candle and went up to my room that
night there sat pap -- his own self!
CHAPTER V.
I HAD shut the door to. Then I turned around.
and there he was. I used to be scared of him all
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
