| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: of really living it, is added a feeble character, external things
assume an extraordinary power over them. Birotteau was like certain
vegetables; transplant them, and you stop their ripening. Just as a
tree needs daily the same sustenance, and must always send its roots
into the same soil, so Birotteau needed to trot about Saint-Gatien,
and amble along the Mail where he took his daily walk, and saunter
through the streets, and visit the three salons where, night after
night, he played his whist or his backgammon.
"Ah! I did not think of it!" replied Monsieur de Bourbonne, gazing at
the priest with a sort of pity.
All Tours was soon aware that Madame la Baronne de Listomere, widow of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: or may not be a police matter. I don't know yet."
"You are a friend of Mr. Clark's? Then the report was correct.
He is still alive, sir?"
"Yes."
The valet got out a handkerchief and wiped his face. He was
clearly moved.
"I am glad of that. Very glad. I saw some months ago, in a
newspaper - where is he?"
"In New York. Now Melis, I've an idea that you know something about
the crime Judson Clark was accused of. You intimated that at the
inquest."
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: My grandpa is my mother's pa,
I guess that's what all grandpas are.
And sometimes ma, all smiles, will say:
"You didn't always act that way.
When I was little, then you said
That children should be sent to bed
And not allowed to rule the place
And lead old folks a merry chase."
And grandpa laughs and says: "That's true,
That's what I used to say to you.
It is a father's place to show
Just Folks |
