| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: O do not walk so fast!
Speak, father, speak to your little boy,
Or else I shall be lost.'
The night was dark, no father was there,
The child was wet with dew;
The mire was deep, and the child did weep,
And away the vapour flew.
THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the wandering light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: well tell the priest what was the matter. Michael
Vedensky was a widower, and a very ambitious
man. A year ago he had met Mitia Smokovni-
kov's father in society, and had had a discussion
with him on religion. Smokovnikov had beaten
him decisively on all points; indeed, he had made
him appear quite ridiculous. Since that time the
priest had decided to pay special attention to
Smokovnikov's son; and, finding him as indifferent
to religious matters as his father was, he began
to persecute him, and even brought about his fail-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: happiness of softening the bitterness of my mother's last moments,
and I pledged myself to continue her work of secret charity,--the
charity of the heart. The first time that I saw my father was
beside the bed where my mother had just expired. When he raised
his tearful eyes, it was to see in me a revival of his dead hopes.
I had sworn, not to tell a lie, but to keep silence; and that
silence what woman could have broken it?
"There is my fault, Jules,--a fault which I expiate by death. I
doubted you. But fear is so natural to a woman; above all, a woman
who knows what it is that she may lose. I trembled for our love.
My father's secret seemed to me the death of my happiness; and the
Ferragus |
