| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: "Yes!" said Eugene to himself. "Yes! Success at all costs now!
Riches could not repay such devotion as this. I wish I could give
them every sort of happiness! Fifteen hundred and fifty francs,"
he went on after a pause. "Every shot must go to the mark! Laure
is right. Trust a woman! I have only calico shirts. Where some
one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as
ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question,
and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel
forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth."
The world lay before him. His tailor had been summoned and
sounded, and had finally surrendered. When Rastignac met M. de
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: his neck. When! Oh! Ha! Ha! You did see! Didn't you? It
wasn't a delusion--was it? Her arms round . . . But I have never
wholly trusted her."
"Then I flew out at him, said Mr. Powell. I told him he was jolly
lucky to have fallen upon Captain Anthony. A man in a million. He
started again shuffling to and fro. "You too," he said mournfully,
keeping his eyes down. "Eh? Wonderful man? But have you a notion
who I am? Listen! I have been the Great Mr. de Barral. So they
printed it in the papers while they were getting up a conspiracy.
And I have been doing time. And now I am brought low." His voice
died down to a mere breath. "Brought low."
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: with Palma, and he rang the alarm bell. There was a panic next day on
the Bourse. The Kellers, acting on Palma's advice, let go Nucingen's
paper at ten per cent of loss; they set the example on 'Change, for
they were supposed to know very well what they were about. Taillefer
followed up with three hundred thousand francs at a discount of twenty
per cent, and Martin Falleix with two hundred thousand at fifteen.
Gigonnet saw what was going on. He helped to spread the panic, with a
view to buying up Nucingen's paper himself and making a commission of
two or three per cent out of Werbrust.
"In a corner of the Bourse he came upon poor Matifat, who had three
hundred thousand francs in Nucingen's bank. Matifat, ghastly and
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