| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'Farewell,' he said, 'and may the blessing of God be on you for
this act of mercy, renegade though you are. Say, now, will you not
come with me? I set my life and honour in pledge for your safety.
You tell me that you are still a Christian man. Is that a place
for Christians?' and he pointed upwards.
'No, indeed,' I answered, 'but still I cannot come, for my wife and
son are there, and I must return to die with them if need be. If
you bear me any gratitude, strive in return to save their lives,
since for my own I care but little.'
'That I will,' he said, and then we let him down among his friends,
whom he reached in safety.
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: know, 'Caesar's wife must not be suspected.' So we shall not make this
foolish trifle a matter of discipline, but only of proprieties.
Between ourselves, it is not on your account, but on that of the
Bench."
"But, monsieur, if you only knew the kind of woman----" said the
judge, trying to pull his report out of his pocket.
"I am perfectly certain that you have proceeded in this matter with
the strictest independence of judgment. I myself, in the provinces,
have often taken more than a cup of tea with the people I had to try;
but the fact that the Keeper of the Seals should have mentioned it,
and that you might be talked about, is enough to make the Court avoid
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: dead, but had only disappeared.
Eleazar rebuked those who had interrupted him; and continuing, asked:
"And dost thou believe that he has indeed come to life again?"
"Why should I not believe it?" Jacob replied.
The Sadducees shrugged their shoulders. Jonathas, opening wide his
little eyes, gave a forced, buffoon-like laugh. Nothing could be more
absurd, said he, than the idea that a human body could have eternal
life; and he declaimed, for the benefit of the proconsul, this line
from a contemporaneous poet:
Nec crescit, nec post mortem durare videtur.
By this time Aulus was leaning over the side of the pavilion, with
Herodias |
