| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: that he was in love. The strange woman,
and her passionate sentence that rang
out so sharply, had frightened them both.
They went home sadly with the lilacs, back
to the Rue Saint-Jacques, walking very slowly,
arm in arm. When they reached the house
where Hilda lodged, Bartley went across the
court with her, and up the dark old stairs to
the third landing; and there he had kissed her
for the first time. He had shut his eyes to
give him the courage, he remembered, and
Alexander's Bridge |
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: "Yes, monsieur."
"Is not that young man----"
"He is dead," said the governor. "Even if the doctor had been on the
spot, he would, unfortunately, have been too late. The young man died
--there--in one of the rooms----"
"May I see him with my own eyes?" asked Jacques Collin timidly. "Will
you allow a father to weep over the body of his son?"
"You can, if you like, take his room, for I have orders to remove you
from these cells; you are no longer in such close confinement,
monsieur."
The prisoner's eyes, from which all light and warmth had fled, turned
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: And yet even these, when sodden by the rains,
Give birth to wormy grubs, because the bodies
Of matter, from their old arrangements stirred
By the new factor, then combine anew
In such a way as genders living things.
Next, they who deem that feeling objects can
From feeling objects be create, and these,
In turn, from others that are wont to feel
. . . . . .
When soft they make them; for all sense is linked
With flesh, and thews, and veins- and such, we see,
Of The Nature of Things |
