| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: "Upside down?" repeated Father Goriot. "Why, the world has never
been so right-side up. I see none but smiling faces in the
streets, people who shake hands cordially and embrace each other,
people who all look as happy as if they were going to dine with
their daughter, and gobble down a nice little dinner that she
went with me to order of the chef at the Cafe des Anglais. But,
pshaw! with her beside you gall and wormwood would be as sweet as
honey."
"I feel as if I were coming back to life again," said Eugene.
"Why, hurry up there!" cried Father Goriot, letting down the
window in front. "Get on faster; I will give you five francs if
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: almost invisible--but for the blotting out of the low
constellations occulted in turns behind the vague masses
of the islets whose true outlines eluded the eye amongst
the dark spaces of the heaven: and the ship's three lights,
resembling three stars--the red and the green with the
white above--her three lights, like three companion
stars wandering on the earth, held their unswerving
course for the passage at the southern end of the group.
Sometimes there were human eyes open to watch them
come nearer, traveling smoothly in the somber void; the
eyes of a naked fisherman in his canoe floating over a
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: instincts. They were so aggravating, too, they
deserved no sympathy.
Again she thanked God that she was not one of
them--that her heart was still capable of romantic
love--a love so sudden and so overwhelming that it
could sweep life before it in one mad rush to its
glorious end.
She woke next morning with a dull sense of
depression. The room was damp and chilly. It was
storming. The splash of rain against the window and
the muffled roar from the street below meant that the
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