| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: old, and given in charge of an old man named Colonna. No detail about
my family was told to me. I knew only that I was an orphan, and
without property. Old Colonna was a father to me; and I bore his name
until I entered the army. In order to do that, I had to show my
certificate of birth in order to prove my identity. Colonna then told
me, still a mere child, that I had enemies. And he advised me to take
Luigi as my surname, and so evade them."
"Go, go, Luigi!" cried Ginevra. "No, stay; I must go with you. So long
as you are in my father's house you have nothing to fear; but the
moment you leave it, take care! you will go from danger to danger. My
father has two Corsicans in his service, and if he does not lie in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: had all the faults of a spoiled child. He treated old Bartolommeo
as a wilful courtesan treats an elderly adorer; buying indemnity
for insolence with a smile, selling good-humor, submitting to be
loved.
Don Juan, beholding scene after scene of his younger years, saw
that it would be a difficult task to find his father's indulgence
at fault. Some new-born remorse stirred the depths of his heart;
he felt almost ready to forgive this father now about to die for
having lived so long. He had an accession of filial piety, like a
thief's return in thought to honesty at the prospect of a million
adroitly stolen.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: Saw from his windows nothing save his own--
What lovelier of his own had he than her,
His only child, his Edith, whom he loved
As heiress and not heir regretfully?
But `he that marries her marries her name'
This fiat somewhat soothed himself and wife,
His wife a faded beauty of the Baths,
Insipid as the Queen upon a card;
Her all of thought and bearing hardly more
Than his own shadow in a sickly sun.
A land of hops and poppy-mingled corn,
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