| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: elected--"
"Very good; will you guarantee your cousin?" asked the young man,
turning to Leon.
"We are forming him," said Bixiou, in a tone irresistibly comic.
"Well, I'll see about it," said the young man, leaving his friends and
rushing precipitately back to the Chamber.
"Who is that?" asked Gazonal.
"The Comte de Rastignac; the minister of the department in which your
affair is brought up."
"A minister! Isn't a minister anything more than that?"
"He is an old friend of ours. He now has three hundred thousand francs
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: to the wretched people of Sitka, at least, without a
generous exchange of breadstuffs, dried meats, peas,
beans, barley and tallow. Not only had he no long-
er the courage to witness their misery, but his for-
tune and his career were at stake. His entire capi-
tal was invested in the Company he had founded,
and he had failed in his embassy to Japan--to the
keen mortification of the Tsar and the jubilation of
his enemies. If he left the Emperor's northeastern
dominions unreclaimed and failed to rescue the
Company from its precarious condition, he hardly
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Why in the library?" said Daphne.
"I'm going to write in another scene."
"Another scene?"
"Well, an epilogue, then."
"What's it going to be?"
"Buckingham"s murder," said Berry. "I can see it all. It will
be hideously realistic. All women and children will have to
leave the theatre."
As he went out:
"I expect the Duke will fight desperately," said I.
Berry put his head round the door.
The Brother of Daphne |
