| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: can endure--as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw.
There are some intervals which border the strain of the wood
thrush, to which I would migrate--wild lands where no settler has
squatted; to which, methinks, I am already acclimated.
The African hunter Cumming tells us that the skin of the eland,
as well as that of most other antelopes just killed, emits the
most delicious perfume of trees and grass. I would have every man
so much like a wild antelope, so much a part and parcel of
nature, that his very person should thus sweetly advertise our
senses of his presence, and remind us of those parts of nature
which he most haunts. I feel no disposition to be satirical, when
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: round her waist; the embroidery on her petticoat and shift was all
crumpled. Her hair, knotted up under a lace cap, had not been combed
for four-and-twenty hours, and showed as a thin, short plait and
ragged little curls. Leontine had forgotten to put on her false hair.
"You are in love for the first time in your life?" said Asie
sententiously.
Leontine then saw the woman and started with horror.
"Who is that, my dear Diane?" she asked of the Duchesse de
Maufrigneuse.
"Whom should I bring with me but a woman who is devoted to Lucien and
willing to help us?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: In a moment I saw how things stood, and took a diplomatic course
that would have done credit to an old ambassador. For once, and
perhaps for the only time in my life, I used tact, and knew in
what the special skill of courtiers and men of the world
consists.
I have had so many battles to fight since those heedless days,
that they have left me no time to distil all the least actions of
daily life, and to do everything so that it falls in with those
rules of etiquette and good taste which wither the most generous
emotions.
"M. le Comte," I said with an air of mystery, "I should like a
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