| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: madame. Not on my own."
"But it is an indelicacy in you to observe such things. You should
be ignorant of them, and I can't think who is so... so unfeeling as
to inform you. But since you are informed, at least you should be
modestly blind to things that take place outside the... orbit of a
properly conducted demoiselle."
"Will they still be outside my orbit when I am married?"
"If you are wise. You should remain without knowledge of them.
It... it deflowers your innocence. I would not for the world that
M. de La Tour d'Azyr should know you so extraordinarily instructed.
Had you been properly reared in a convent this would never have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to practice magic, and in time he became so skillful that, as I said,
he scorned our city and built a solitary castle for himself."
"Do you think" asked Dorothy anxiously, "that Ugu the Shoemaker would
be wicked enough to steal our Ozma of Oz?"
"And the Magic Picture?" asked Trot.
"And the Great Book of Records of Glinda the Good?"
asked Betsy.
"And my own magic tools?" asked the Wizard.
" replied the Czarover, "I won't say that Ugu is wicked,
exactly, but he is very ambitious to become the most powerful magician
in the world, and so I suppose he would not be too proud to steal any
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: covered temples, the unchanged hungry character
of the face--so strangely ascetic and so incapable
of portraying emotion.
What should he do? He had lived by being
near her. He had sat--in the evening--I knew?--
all his life! She sewed. Her head was bent--so.
Her head--like this--and her arms. Ah! Had I
seen? Like this.
He dropped on a stool, bowed his powerful neck
whose nape was red, and with his hands stitched
the air, ludicrous, sublimely imbecile and compre-
Falk |
