| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: found you poor. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to
better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an
affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and
so forth. The lady being poor and you poor also, there is an end
of the matter. You cannot enter upon these considerations, and
have no manner of business with the ceremony. I drink her health
in this glass, and respect and honour her for her extreme good
sense. It is a lesson to you. Fill yours, Ned.'
'It is a lesson,' returned his son, 'by which I hope I may never
profit, and if years and experience impress it on--'
'Don't say on the heart,' interposed his father.
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: neighborhood, and finding an ill-looking man at his elbow, he asked
him for information. The man, who held a knotted stick in his right
hand, placed the left on his hip and replied in a single word:
"Scoundrel!"
But on looking at the Italian, who stood in the light of a street-
lamp, he assumed a servile expression.
"I beg your pardon, sir," said he, suddenly changing his tone. "There
is a restaurant near this, a sort of table-d'hote, where the cooking
is pretty bad and they serve cheese in the soup. Monsieur is in search
of the place, perhaps, for it is easy to see that he is an Italian--
Italians are fond of velvet and of cheese. But if monsieur would like
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: amuse himself, as well as to tire out his hard-
working nomes. All the trees are gold and silver
and the ground is strewn with precious stones, so
it is a sort of treasury."
"Let us go there at once and rescue my dear
brother," pleaded Shaggy earnestly.
Kaliko hesitated.
"I don't believe I can find the way," said he.
"Ruggedo made three secret passages to the Metal
Forest, but he changes the location of these
passages every week, so that no one can get to the
Tik-Tok of Oz |
