| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: with the crumpled little brute of a tie in his hand.
"Why, what is the matter, father dear?"
"Matter!" he yelled; he really yelled. "This tie, it will not
tie." He became dangerously sarcastic. "Not round my neck!
Round the bed-post! Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round
the bed-post, but round my neck, no! Oh dear no! begs to be
excused!"
He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he
went on sternly, "I warn you of this, mother, that unless this
tie is round my neck we don't go out to dinner to-night, and if I
don't go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again,
Peter Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: pleasure, and shall part with regret.'
Strange that, after his long experience, my grandfather
should have learned so little of the attitude and even the
dialect of the spiritually-minded; that after forty-four years
in a most religious circle, he could drop without sense of
incongruity from a period of accepted phrases to `trust his
wife was GETTING UP HER SPIRITS,' or think to reassure her as
to the character of Captain Wemyss by mentioning that he had
read prayers on the deck of his frigate `AGREEABLY TO THE
ARTICLES OF WAR'! Yet there is no doubt - and it is one of
the most agreeable features of the kindly series - that he was
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: of her civil list, to return to a less exclusive system; and La
Palferine, discovering a certain lack of sincerity in her dealings
with him, sent Madame Antonia a note which made her famous.
" 'MADAME,--Your conduct causes me much surprise and no less
distress. Not content with rending my heart with your disdain, you
have been so little thoughtful as to retain a toothbrush, which my
means will not permit me to replace, my estates being mortgaged
beyond their value.
" 'Adieu, too fair and too ungrateful friend! May we meet again in
a better world.
" 'CHARLES EDWARD.'
|
