| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: refuse, but ended by agreeing to sell part of her property. After
that, with an irrepressible smile of tenderness, Kitty recalled
her husband's shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated awkward
efforts to approach the subject, and how at last, having thought
of the one means of helping Dolly without wounding her pride, he
had suggested to Kitty--what had not occurred to her before--that
she should give up her share of the property.
"He an unbeliever indeed! With-his heart, his dread of offending
any one, even a childl Everything for others, nothing for
himself. Sergey Ivanovitch simply considers it as Kostya's duty
to be his steward. And it's the same with his sister. Now Dolly
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: spoke truth, and that the reluctance with which
I part from thee hath something in it more than
is natural.---Fair creature!'' he said, approaching
near her, but with great respect,---``so young, so
beautiful, so fearless of death! and yet doomed to
die, and with infamy and agony. Who would not
weep for thee?---The tear, that has been a stranger
to these eyelids for twenty years, moistens them
as I gaze on thee. But it must be---nothing may
now save thy life. Thou and I are but the blind
instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries
Ivanhoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: where the foreman had arranged a table and benches by digging
posts into the ground, and fixing boards on the top, under the
apple trees. It took some time before the peasants could be
persuaded to put on their caps and to sit down on the benches.
Especially firm was the ex-soldier, who to-day had bark shoes on.
He stood erect, holding his cap as they do at funerals, according
to military regulation. When one of them, a respectable-looking,
broad-shouldered old man, with a curly, grizzly beard like that
of Michael Angelo's "Moses," and grey hair that curled round the
brown, bald forehead, put on his big cap, and, wrapping his coat
round him, got in behind the table and sat down, the rest
Resurrection |
