| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: out. But at the barrier he saw two gendarmes lying in wait for the
carriage. A cry of horror burst from him but Melmoth gave him a
glance, and again the sound died in his throat.
"Keep your eyes on the stage, and be quiet!" said the Englishman.
In another moment Castanier saw himself flung into prison at the
Conciergerie; and in the fifth act of the drama, entitled The Cashier,
he saw himself, in three months' time, condemned to twenty years of
penal servitude. Again a cry broke from him. He was exposed upon the
Place du Palais-de-Justice, and the executioner branded him with a
red-hot iron. Then came the last scene of all; among some sixty
convicts in the prison yard of the Bicetre, he was awaiting his turn
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: busying himself with modes of accounting for the alarming fact,
quite apart from that intolerable thought. Some accident had
happened. Hetty had, by some strange chance, got into a wrong
vehicle from Oakbourne: she had been taken ill, and did not want
to frighten them by letting them know. But this frail fence of
vague improbabilities was soon hurled down by a rush of distinct
agonizing fears. Hetty had been deceiving herself in thinking
that she could love and marry him: she had been loving Arthur all
the while; and now, in her desperation at the nearness of their
marriage, she had run away. And she was gone to him. The old
indignation and jealousy rose again, and prompted the suspicion
Adam Bede |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: from Thee a successor, to be my heir and the heir of the family of
Jacob, and make him, my Lord! acceptable.'
'O Zachariah! verily, we give thee glad tidings of a son, whose name
shall be John. We never made a namesake of his before.'
Said he, 'My Lord! how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and
I have reached through old age to decrepitude?'
He said, 'Thus says thy Lord, It is easy for Me, for I created
thee at first when yet thou wast nothing.'
Said he, 'O my Lord! make for me a sign. He said, 'Thy sign is
that thou shalt not speak to men for three nights (though) sound.'
Then he went forth unto his people from the chamber, and he made
The Koran |
