| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: Welshman's door. The inmates were
asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on
a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting
episode of the night. A call came from a window:
"Who's there!"
Huck's scared voice answered in a low tone:
"Please let me in! It's only Huck Finn!"
"It's a name that can open this door night or day,
lad! -- and welcome!"
These were strange words to the vagabond boy's
ears, and the pleasantest he had ever heard. He
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: and that you have even accepted papers from him for safe custody. I
like you and don't wish you any harm and- as you are only half my age-
I advise you, as a father would, to cease all communication with men
of that stamp and to leave here as soon as possible."
"But what did Klyucharev do wrong, Count?" asked Pierre.
"That is for me to know, but not for you to ask," shouted
Rostopchin.
"If he is accused of circulating Napoleon's proclamation it is not
proved that he did so," said Pierre without looking at Rostopchin,
"and Vereshchagin..."
"There we are!" Rostopchin shouted at Pierre louder than before,
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: speech.
"Next to nothing," returned the other, with a slight involuntary
movement, the suppressed exultation of the angler when he feels a
bite at the end of his line. "Follow me carefully! The heart of a
girl whose life is wretched and unhappy is a sponge that will
thirstily absorb love; a dry sponge that swells at the first drop
of sentiment. If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is
a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no
suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is
quint and quatorze at piquet; it is knowing the numbers of the
lottery before-hand; it is speculating in the funds when you have
Father Goriot |
