| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: Mysterious questions! Already her dawning love, a mystery so profound,
was wrapping itself in mystery. She walked back trembling in all her
limbs; and when she reached the gloomy street, lately so joyous to
her, she felt its sadness, she breathed the melancholy which time and
events had printed there. None of love's lessons lacked. A few steps
from their own door she went on before her father and waited at the
threshold. But Grandet, who saw a newspaper in the notary's hand,
stopped short and asked,--
"How are the Funds?"
"You never listen to my advice, Grandet," answered Cruchot. "Buy soon;
you will still make twenty per cent in two years, besides getting an
Eugenie Grandet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: in front of them, until they came to the sheltered circle, and he
helped her down where the soft pine needles lay. They felt each
other tremble, and for a moment she stood hiding her head upon
his breast. Then she looked round at the trees, and the shores,
and the flowing stream, and he heard her whispering how beautiful
it was.
"I am glad," he said, still holding her. "This is how I have
dreamed it would happen. Only it is better than my dreams." And
when she pressed him in silence, he finished, "I have meant we
should see our first sundown here, and our first sunrise."
She wished to help him take the packs from their horses, to make
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: the state. But rather like allies who render each other stronger the
more they combine,[37] so in these silver mines, the greater number of
companies at work[38] the larger the riches they will discover and
disinter.[39]
[35] "To form similar joint-stock companies."
[36] See "Cyneg." v. 5.
[37] Or, "deriving strength from combination."
[38] Co-operators.
[39] Reading {ekphoresousi}, after Cobet.
This then is a statement, as far as I can make it clear, of the method
by which, with the proper state organisation, every Athenian may be
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