| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: and, thinking it was something concerning him, wished to go away,
but she caught him up and said: "I beg your pardon, Prince, I
know you, and, thinking an introduction superfluous, I beg you to
stay and take part in our literary matinee. It will be most
interesting. M. Fanarin will read."
"You see what a lot I have to do," said Fanarin, spreading out
his hands and smilingly pointing to his wife, as if to show how
impossible it was to resist so charming a creature.
Nekhludoff thanked the advocate's wife with extreme politeness
for the honour she did him in inviting him, but refused the
invitation with a sad and solemn look, and left the room.
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: Paley, a common authority with many on moral questions, in his
chapter on the "Duty of Submission to Civil Government," resolves
all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say that
"so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is,
so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed
without public inconveniency, it is the will of God... that the
established government be obeyed, and no longer.... This principle
being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance
is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and
grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of
redressing it on the other." Of this, he says, every man shall
Walden |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: Martin was of no mind to lose. Had Rose not released him from his
promise he would have kept it. Even now he was disturbed as to
what Fletcher and Fallon might think. But already he had lived
long enough with his wife to understand something of the quality
of her pride. Once having agreed to the change, she would carry
it off with a dash.
Had Rose stood her ground on this matter, undoubtedly all her
after life might have been different, but she was of those women
whose charm and whose folly lie in their sensitiveness to the
moods and contentment of the people most closely associated with
them. They can rise above their own discomfort or depression, but
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