| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: in astonishment.
"Ah, it is you!" he cried at last. "I have found it, my friend,
I have found it!"
"What?"
"My plan!"
"What plan?"
"The plan for countering the effect of the shock at the
departure of the projectile!"
"Indeed?" said Michel Ardan, looking at the captain out of the
corner of his eye.
"Yes! water! simply water, which will act as a spring-- ah!
From the Earth to the Moon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: everything in the good old home. The abbe said, with scanty tears
moistening his aged eyes,--
"Mademoiselle, I haven't even the little grove where I have walked for
fifty years. My beloved lindens are all cut down! At the moment of my
death the Republic appears to me more than ever under the form of a
horrible destruction of the Home."
"You must pardon your niece," said the Chevalier de Valois.
"Republican ideas are the first error of youth which seeks for
liberty; later it finds it the worst of despotisms,--that of an
impotent canaille. Your poor niece is punished where she sinned."
"What will become of me in a house where naked women are painted on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: Here in the village there seemed to be less wind and snow, and
the frost was less keen.
'Why, this is Grishkino,' said Vasili Andreevich.
'So it is,' responded Nikita.
It really was Grishkino, which meant that they had gone too far
to the left and had travelled some six miles, not quite in the
direction they aimed at, but towards their destination for all
that.
From Grishkino to Goryachkin was about another four miles.
In the middle of the village they almost ran into a tall man
walking down the middle of the street.
Master and Man |
