| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: forgetting that her original adventure with Jimmy which had
brought about such disastrous results was still unknown to Aggie
and Alfred, she concluded bitterly, "All this would never have
happened, if it hadn't been for Jimmy and his horrid old
luncheon."
Jimmy was startled. This was too much, and just as he had seemed
to be well out of complications for the remainder of his no doubt
short life. He turned to bolt for the door but Aggie's eyes were
upon him.
"Luncheon?" exclaimed Aggie and she regarded him with a puzzled
frown.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible
to become a sham.
Not that I think resignation the last word of wisdom. I am too
much the creature of my time for that. But I think that the
proper wisdom is to will what the gods will without perhaps being
certain what their will is--or even if they have a will of their
own. And in this matter of life and art it is not the Why that
matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman
said, "Il y a toujours la maniere." Very true. Yes. There is
the manner. The manner in laughter, in tears, in irony, in
indignations and enthusiasms, in judgments--and even in love.
Some Reminiscences |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: which had been suspended during the excitement of the moving; for
during that agitating period Thuillier had been unable to give proper
care to the correction of proofs, about which, we may remember, he had
reserved the right of punctilious examination. La Peyrade had now
reached a point when he was forced to see that, in order to restore
his influence, which was daily evaporating, he must strike some grand
blow; and it was precisely this nagging and vexatious fancy about the
proofs that the barrister decided to take as the starting-point of a
scheme, both deep and adventurous, which came into his mind.
One day, when the pair were engaged on the sheets of the pamphlet, a
discussion arose upon the word "nepotism," which Thuillier wished to
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