| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: the Quartier-Latin, would compare this obscure and vegetative life to
that of the ivy that clung to these chill walls, to that of the
peasants born to labor, who are born, toil, and die unknown to the
world they have helped to feed. A house-owner, after studying the
house with the eye of a valuer, would have said, "What will become of
those two women if embroidery should go out of fashion?" Among the men
who, having some appointment at the Hotel de Ville or the Palais de
Justice, were obliged to go through this street at fixed hours, either
on their way to business or on their return home, there may have been
some charitable soul. Some widower or Adonis of forty, brought so
often into the secrets of these sad lives, may perhaps have reckoned
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: has an abominable, a beastly, nightmare interest. But it's
wonderful generally how little one cares about the wounded;
hospital sights, etc.; things that used to murder me. I was
far more struck with the excellent way in which things were
managed; as if it had been a peep-show; I held some of the
things at an operation, and did not care a dump.
TUESDAY, 18TH.
Sunday came the KATOOMBA, Captain Bickford, C.M.G.
Yesterday, Graham and I went down to call, and find he has
orders to suppress Mataafa at once, and has to go down to-day
before daybreak to Manono. He is a very capable, energetic
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: The first of these causes is the climate; it is well known
that in proportion as Europeans approach the tropics they suffer
more from labor. Many of the Americans even assert that within a
certain latitude the exertions which a negro can make without
danger are fatal to them; *o but I do not think that this
opinion, which is so favorable to the indolence of the
inhabitants of southern regions, is confirmed by experience. The
southern parts of the Union are not hotter than the South of
Italy and of Spain; *p and it may be asked why the European
cannot work as well there as in the two latter countries. If
slavery has been abolished in Italy and in Spain without causing
|
