| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment
The Secrets of a Princess
The Government Clerks
Pierrette
A Study of Woman
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honorine
The Seamy Side of History
The Magic Skin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Is gaping, forth he darts into the dry,
Rolls eyes of fire and rages through the fields,
Furious from thirst and by the drought dismayed.
Me list not then beneath the open heaven
To snatch soft slumber, nor on forest-ridge
Lie stretched along the grass, when, slipped his slough,
To glittering youth transformed he winds his spires,
And eggs or younglings leaving in his lair,
Towers sunward, lightening with three-forked tongue.
Of sickness, too, the causes and the signs
I'll teach thee. Loathly scab assails the sheep,
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Nevertheless, when I was safely home again, with Mrs. Klopton
brewing strange drinks that came in paper packets from the pharmacy,
and that smelled to heaven, I remember staggering to the door and
closing it, and then going back to bed and howling out the absurdity
and the madness of the whole thing. And while I laughed my very
soul was sick, for the girl was gone by that time, and I knew by all
the loyalty that answers between men for honor that I would have to
put her out of my mind.
And yet, all the night that followed, filled as it was with the
shrieking demons of pain, I saw her as I had seen her last, in the
queer hat with green ribbons. I told the doctor this, guardedly,
The Man in Lower Ten |
