| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: the air.
Reflecting, he saw a sort of a humor in the
point of view of himself and his fellows during
the late encounter. They had taken themselves
and the enemy very seriously and had imagined
that they were deciding the war. Individuals
must have supposed that they were cutting the
letters of their names deep into everlasting tablets
of brass, or enshrining their reputations forever in
the hearts of their countrymen, while, as to fact,
the affair would appear in printed reports under a
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: longer recognise "nationalities," but only existing "governments." God
grant that they may see in time that the assertion of national life, as
a spiritual and indefeasible existence, was for centuries the central
idea of English policy; the idea by faith in which she delivered first
herself, and then the Protestant nations of the Continent, successively
from the yokes of Rome, of Spain, of France; and that they may reassert
that most English of all truths again, let the apparent cost be what it
may.
It is true, that this end will not be attained without what is called
nowadays "a destruction of human life." But we have yet to learn (at
least if the doctrines which I have tried to illustrate in this little
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: that expression on her face she was more beautiful than ever; but
the expression was new; it was utterly unlike that expression,
radiant with happiness and creating happiness, which had been
caught by the painter in her portrait. Levin looked more than
once at the portrait and at her figure, as taking her brother's
arm she walked with him to the high doors and he felt for her a
tenderness and pity at which he wondered himself.
She asked Levin and Vorkuev to go into the drawing-room, while
she stayed behind to say a few words to her brother. "About her
divorce, about Vronsky, and what he's doing at the club, about
me?" wondered Levin. And he was so keenly interested by the
Anna Karenina |
