| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: their feelings, and was never precious to them, although it struck its
roots deep down into their natures. Under such training the two Maries
would either have become mere imbeciles, or they must necessarily have
longed for independence. Thus it came to pass that they looked to
marriage as soon as they saw anything of life and were able to compare
a few ideas. Of their own tender graces and their personal value they
were absolutely ignorant. They were ignorant, too, of their own
innocence; how, then, could they know life? Without weapons to meet
misfortune, without experience to appreciate happiness, they found no
comfort in the maternal jail, all their joys were in each other. Their
tender confidences at night in whispers, or a few short sentences
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: ne hostes proelio lacesserent, et si ipsi lacesserentur, sustinerent quoad
ipse cum exercitu propius accessisset.
At hostes, ubi primum nostros equites conspexerunt, quorum erat V
milium numerus, cum ipsi non amplius DCCC equites haberent, quod ii qui
frumentandi causa erant trans Mosam profecti nondum redierant, nihil
timentibus nostris, quod legati eorum paulo ante a Caesare discesserant
atque is dies indutiis erat ab his petitus, impetu facto celeriter nostros
perturbaverunt; rursus his resistentibus consuetudine sua ad pedes
desiluerunt subfossis equis compluribus nostris deiectis reliquos in fugam
coniecerunt atque ita perterritos egerunt ut non prius fuga desisterent
quam in conspectum agminis nostri venissent. In eo proelio ex equitibus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: The horse ambled on some steps before Fitzpiers replied, "Because
I am tied and bound to another by law, as tightly as I am to you
by your arm--not that I complain of your arm--I thank you for
helping me. Well, where are we? Not nearly home yet?...Home, say
I. It is a home! When I might have been at the other house over
there." In a stupefied way he flung his hand in the direction of
the park. "I was just two months too early in committing myself.
Had I only seen the other first--"
Here the old man's arm gave Fitzpiers a convulsive shake. "What
are you doing?" continued the latter. "Keep still, please, or put
me down. I was saying that I lost her by a mere little two
The Woodlanders |
