| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: "Well," he said, "and which do you like the best, Mme. de Restaud
or Mme. de Nucingen?"
"I like Mme. Delphine the best," said the law student, "because
she loves you the best."
At the words so heartily spoken the old man's hand slipped out
from under the bedclothes and grasped Eugene's.
"Thank you, thank you," he said, gratefully. "Then what did she
say about me?"
The student repeated the Baroness' remarks with some
embellishments of his own, the old man listening the while as
though he heard a voice from Heaven.
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: II
But it was at night that he talked openly, forgetting the exactions
of his stage. In the daytime there were affairs to be discussed in
state. There were at first between him and me his own splendour, my
shabby suspicions, and the scenic landscape that intruded upon the
reality of our lives by its motionless fantasy of outline and colour.
His followers thronged round him; above his head the broad blades of
their spears made a spiked halo of iron points, and they hedged him
from humanity by the shimmer of silks, the gleam of weapons, the
excited and respectful hum of eager voices. Before sunset he would
take leave with ceremony, and go off sitting under a red umbrella, and
Tales of Unrest |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Said he, 'This is the parting between me and thee. I will give
thee the interpretation of that with which thou couldst not have
patience. As for the bark it belonged to poor people, who toiled on
the sea, and I wished to damage it, for behind it was a king who
seized on every bark by force. And as for the youth, his parents
were believers, and we feared lest he should impose upon them
rebellion and misbelief So we desired that their Lord would give
them in exchange a better one than him in purity, and nearer in filial
affection. And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan youths in
the city, and beneath it was a treasure belonging to them both, and
their father was a righteous man, and their Lord desired that they
The Koran |
