| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: ECLOGUE IV
POLLIO
Muses of Sicily, essay we now
A somewhat loftier task! Not all men love
Coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,
Woods worthy of a Consul let them be.
Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: face this terrible passage from maidenhood to womanhood. All our
conversations came back to my mind, I re-read your letters and
discerned in them a vague undertone of sadness.
This anxiety had one advantage at least; it helped me to the
regulation expression for a bride as commonly depicted. The
consequence was that on the day of signing the contract everybody said
I looked charming and quite the right thing. This morning, at the
Mairie, it was an informal business, and only the witnesses were
present.
I am writing this tail to my letter while they are putting out my
dress for dinner. We shall be married at midnight at the Church of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: a shrivelled ageless Italian, clasping and unclasping her dark claws. Her
face, a treasure of delicate carving, is tied in a green-and-gold scarf.
And inside their prison the love-birds flutter towards the papers in the
seed-tray.
"You have great strength of character. You will marry a red-haired man and
have three children. Beware of a blonde woman." Look out! Look out! A
motor-car driven by a fat chauffeur comes rushing down the hill. Inside
there a blonde woman, pouting, leaning forward--rushing through your life--
beware! beware!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am an auctioneer by profession, and if what I tell
you is not the truth I am liable to have my licence taken away from me and
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