| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: of her death!"
"Hush, miserable woman!" replied Jules, putting his handkerchief on
the mouth of the old woman, who began at once to cry out, "Murder!
help!"
At this instant Clemence entered, saw her husband, uttered a cry, and
fled away.
"Who will save my child?" cried the widow Gruget. "You have murdered
her."
"How?" asked Jules, mechanically, for he was horror-struck at being
seen by his wife.
"Read that," said the old woman, giving him a letter. "Can money or
Ferragus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Except my body after I die?
"Like Barley Bending"
Like barley bending
In low fields by the sea,
Singing in hard wind
Ceaselessly;
Like barley bending
And rising again,
So would I, unbroken,
Rise from pain;
So would I softly,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: At simpring Sirs that did; I have beene harsh
To large Confessors, and have hotly ask'd them
If they had Mothers: I had one, a woman,
And women t'wer they wrong'd. I knew a man
Of eightie winters, this I told them, who
A Lasse of foureteene brided; twas thy power
To put life into dust; the aged Crampe
Had screw'd his square foote round,
The Gout had knit his fingers into knots,
Torturing Convulsions from his globie eyes,
Had almost drawne their spheeres, that what was life
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