| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: and by what more deare, a better proposer could charge
you withall; be euen and direct with me, whether you
were sent for or no
Rosin. What say you?
Ham. Nay then I haue an eye of you: if you loue me
hold not off
Guil. My Lord, we were sent for
Ham. I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation
preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King and
Queene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore
I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of exercise;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: meet, and quail before, a gaze of admiration more distinct
than words. He bowed, he stammered, his words failed him; he
who had crossed the floor a moment ago, like a young god, to
smite, returned like one discomfited; got somehow to his
place by the table, muffled himself again in his discarded
cloak, and for a last touch of the ridiculous, seeking for
anything to restore his countenance, drank of the wine before
him, deep as a porter after a heavy lift. It was little
wonder if Ballantrae, reading the scene with malevolent eyes,
laughed out loud and brief, and drank with raised glass, 'To
the champion of the Fair.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: soon as it was over without his feeling any further inconvenience.
These effects of antipathy, all well authenticated, and chosen from
among many which history has happened to preserve, are enough to give
a clue to the sympathies which remain unknown.
This fragment of Lambert's investigations, which I remember from among
his essays, will throw a light on the method on which he worked. I
need not emphasize the obvious connection between this theory and the
collateral sciences projected by Gall and Lavater; they were its
natural corollary; and every more or less scientific brain will
discern the ramifications by which it is inevitably connected with the
phrenological observations of one and the speculations on physiognomy
Louis Lambert |
