| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: Memmi to the English for bread for the living Prince Varese! Genovese,
the famous tenor, could get in one season, by his warbling, the
capital of an income on which this son of the Memmi could live--this
descendant of Roman senators as venerable as Caesar and Sylla.
Genovese may smoke an Eastern hookah, and the Prince of Varese cannot
even have enough cigars!"
He tossed the end he was smoking into the sea. The Prince of Varese
found cigars at the Duchess Cataneo's; how gladly would he have laid
the treasures of the world at her feet! She studied all his caprices,
and was happy to gratify them. He made his only meal at her house--his
supper; for all his money was spent in clothes and his place in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: along the jetty like a ripple on the water, like a breath
of wind on a field--and all was still again. I see it now
--the wide sweep of the bay, the glittering sands, the
wealth of green infinite and varied, the sea blue like the
sea of a dream, the crowd of attentive faces, the blaze of
vivid color--the water reflecting it all, the curve of the
shore, the jetty, the high-sterned outlandish craft float-
ing still, and the three boats with tired men from the
West sleeping unconscious of the land and the people
and of the violence of sunshine. They slept thrown
across the thwarts, curled on bottom-boards, in the care-
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: whispered to him that he had done right, and that he must follow
up the trail he had found. That gave him back his usual calm.
He took up his hat, and standing before the pale-faced woman,
looking her firmly in the eyes, he said: "It is true that I have
no right as yet to force my way into your house, therefore I have
been obliged to enter it as best I could. I have done this often
in my work, but I do it for the safety of society. And those who
reproach me for doing it are generally those whom I have been
obliged to persecute in the name of the law. Mrs. Bernauer, I
will confess that there are moments in which I feel ashamed that I
have chosen this profession that compels me to hunt down human
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