| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: them," said the Frenchman.
"And since when have great physicians ceased to read men's minds?"
said she, jestingly.
The ballet was long since ended; the second act of /Mose/ was
beginning. The pit was perfectly attentive. A rumor had got abroad
that Duke Cataneo had lectured Genovese, representing to him what
injury he was doing to Clarina, the /diva/ of the day. The second act
would certainly be magnificent.
"The Egyptian Prince and his father are on the stage," said the
Duchess. "They have yielded once more, though insulting the Hebrews,
but they are trembling with rage. The father congratulates himself on
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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: sorrow in my eyes:
"MY DEAR MARGUERITE: I hope that your indisposition yesterday was
not serious. I came, at eleven at night, to ask after you, and
was told that you had not come in. M. de G. was more fortunate,
for he presented himself shortly afterward, and at four in the
morning he had not left.
"Forgive me for the few tedious hours that I have given you, and
be assured that I shall never forget the happy moments which I
owe to you.
"I should have called to-day to ask after you, but I intend going
back to my father's.
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: her too, to say that people must marry; people must have children.
Was she wrong in this, she asked herself, reviewing her conduct for the
past week or two, and wondering if she had indeed put any pressure upon
Minta, who was only twenty-four, to make up her mind. She was uneasy.
Had she not laughed about it? Was she not forgetting again how
strongly she influenced people? Marriage needed--oh, all sorts of
qualities (the bill for the greenhouse would be fifty pounds); one--she
need not name it--that was essential; the thing she had with her
husband. Had they that?
"Then he put on his trousers and ran away like a madman," she read.
"But outside a great storm scarcely keep his feet; houses and trees
To the Lighthouse |
