| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: I rose to go, for it was getting late. She got up in some agitation
and went out with me into the fragrant darkness of the garden. She
detained my hand for a moment and then in the very voice of the
Flora of old days, with the exact intonation, showing the old
mistrust, the old doubt of herself, the old scar of the blow
received in childhood, pathetic and funny, she murmured, "Do you
think it possible that he should care for me?"
"Just ask him yourself. You are brave."
"Oh, I am brave enough," she said with a sigh.
"Then do. For if you don't you will be wronging that patient man
cruelly."
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: stones on the roadways; I had to keep in order, repair, and
sometimes construct culverts, one-arched bridges, regulate drift-
ways, clean and sometimes open ditches, lay out bounds, and answer
questions about the planting and felling of trees. Such are the
principal and sometimes the only occupations of ordinary
engineers, together with a little levelling which the government
obliges us to do ourselves, though any of our chain-bearers with
their limited experience can do it better than we with all our
science.
There are nearly four hundred engineers-in-ordinary and pupil
engineers; and as there are not more than a hundred or so of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: if people offered him a thousand crowns to do it; but Cerizet picks
them up and looks at them."
It is hard for noble natures to think evil, to believe in ingratitude;
only through rough experience do they learn the extent of human
corruption; and even when there is nothing left them to learn in this
kind, they rise to an indulgence which is the last degree of contempt.
"Pooh! pure Paris street-boy's curiosity," cried David.
"Very well, dear, do me the pleasure to step downstairs and look at
the work done by this boy of yours, and tell me then whether he ought
not to have finished our almanac this month."
David went into the workshop after dinner, and saw that the calendar
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