| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on -
"I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant--
(overlook the barbarism)--croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking
alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the
fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an
elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses,
and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the
'voiture' I had given Celine. She was returning: of course my
heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon.
The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame
(that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though
Jane Eyre |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: We've been climbing trees an' fences
Never minding consequences.
And we helped the man to curry
The fat ponies' sides so furry.
And we saw a squirrel taking
Walnuts to the nest he's making,
Storing them for winter, when he
Can't get out to hunt for any.
And we watched the turkeys, growing
Big and fat and never knowing
That the reason they were living
Just Folks |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: face. She was able to show a smiling front in answer to all who tried
to testify their interest by mournful looks or melancholy speeches.
She hid her misery behind a veil of courtesy. Towards nine o'clock the
games ended and the players left the tables, paying their losses and
discussing points of the game as they joined the rest of the company.
At the moment when the whole party rose to take leave, an unexpected
and striking event occurred, which resounded through the length and
breadth of Saumur, from thence through the arrondissement, and even to
the four surrounding prefectures.
"Stay, monsieur le president," said Eugenie to Monsieur de Bonfons as
she saw him take his cane.
Eugenie Grandet |
