| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: Burns did not display undue interest in the sub-
ject. He ran over the old tale of that savage
ruffian's iniquities with a certain vindictive gusto
and then concluded unexpectedly:
"I do believe, sir, that his brain began to go a
year or more before he died."
A wonderful recovery. I could hardly spare it
as much admiration as it deserved, for I had to give
all my mind to the steering.
In comparison with the hopeless languour of the
preceding days this was dizzy speed. Two ridges
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: plant that hung its purple gems beside the marble fountain, he
placed a kind of mask over his mouth and nostrils, as if all this
beauty did but conceal a deadlier malice; but, finding his task
still too dangerous, he drew back, removed the mask, and called
loudly, but in the infirm voice of a person affected with inward
disease, "Beatrice! Beatrice!"
"Here am I, my father. What would you?" cried a rich and youthful
voice from the window of the opposite house--a voice as rich as a
tropical sunset, and which made Giovanni, though he knew not why,
think of deep hues of purple or crimson and of perfumes heavily
delectable. "Are you in the garden?"
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: on whom La Palferine had expended his seductions, consented to accept
a supper, and was about to enter the carriage of her faithless friend.
At this critical moment her arm was grasped by a powerful hand, and
she was taken, in spite of her struggles, to her own carriage, the
door of which stood open, though she did not know it was there.
"He has never left Paris!" she exclaimed to herself as she recognized
Thaddeus, who disappeared when the carriage drove away.
Did any woman ever have a like romance in her life? Clementine is
constantly hoping she may again see Paz.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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