| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: son, you have two hundred votes, and the Prefecture no more than a
hundred and eighty."
"I have two hundred votes?" said Albert, standing stupid with
amazement, after starting to his feet as if shot up by a spring.
"You have those of Monsieur de Chavoncourt," said the Abbe.
"How?" said Albert.
"You will marry Mademoiselle Sidonie de Chavoncourt."
"Never!"
"You will marry Mademoiselle Sidonie de Chavoncourt," the priest
repeated coldly.
"But you see--she is inexorable," said Albert, pointing to Francesca.
Albert Savarus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: breathing dragon to fall back on."
"Ah!" said the dragon, another sheet of flame
gushing from his mouth and nostrils; "it's a wise
little girl, this Polychrome. Anyone would know
she is a fairy."
Chapter Fourteen
The Long-Eared Hearer Learns by Listening
During this time Ruggedo, the Metal Monarch and
King of the Nomes, was trying to amuse himself in
his splendid jeweled cavern. It was hard work for
Ruggedo to find amusement to day, for all the
Tik-Tok of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: glory. And now the old ships and their men are gone; the new ships
and the new men, many of them bearing the old, auspicious names,
have taken up their watch on the stern and impartial sea, which
offers no opportunities but to those who know how to grasp them
with a ready hand and an undaunted heart.
XLIX.
This the navy of the Twenty Years' War knew well how to do, and
never better than when Lord Nelson had breathed into its soul his
own passion of honour and fame. It was a fortunate navy. Its
victories were no mere smashing of helpless ships and massacres of
cowed men. It was spared that cruel favour, for which no brave
The Mirror of the Sea |
