| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: would think them two beings devoid of any analogy. The woman has
emerged from those mysterious garments like a butterfly from its silky
cocoon. She serves up, like some rare dainty, to your lavished eyes,
the forms which her bodice scarcely revealed in the morning. At the
theatre she never mounts higher than the second tier, excepting at the
Italiens. You can there watch at your leisure the studied
deliberateness of her movements. The enchanting deceiver plays off all
the little political artifices of her sex so naturally as to exclude
all idea of art or premeditation. If she has a royally beautiful hand,
the most perspicacious beholder will believe that it is absolutely
necessary that she should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: following more leisurely.
"Here's Bilbil!" shouted the boy to the King. "The
enemy didn't get him, it seems."
"That's lucky for the enemy," said Rinkitink. "But
it's lucky for me, too, for perhaps the beast can
assist me out of this hole. If you can let a rope down
the well, I am sure that you and Bilbil, pulling
together, will be able to drag me to the earth's
surface."
"Be patient and we will make the attempt," replied
Inga encouragingly, and he ran to search. the ruins for
Rinkitink In Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: as if wishing to assure himself of the presence or absence of
something. At last he had found a slight thing, which he put
first in his pocket, and then, on a second thought, took out again
and thrust deep down into a waste-paper basket. It was a woman's
little, pink, silk neckerchief. He set the candle on the table,
and threw himself down on the ottoman again, exhausted with the
effort.
When Adam came back with his supplies, his entrance awoke Arthur
from a doze.
"That's right," Arthur said; "I'm tremendously in want of some
brandy-vigour."
Adam Bede |
