| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: captain of the king's Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three
young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was
soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it
immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under
which D'Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else
that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen
them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of
fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer's uniform.
>From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in
The Three Musketeers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: through which the white man was led toward a hut, Lieu-
tenant Smith-Oldwick saw coming from the opposite end of
the village a number of Negroes wearing odds and ends of
German uniforms. He was not a little surprised at this, and
his first thought was that he had at last come in contact with
some portion of the army which was rumored to be crossing
from the west coast and for signs of which he had been search-
ing.
A rueful smile touched his lips as he contemplated the
unhappy circumstances which surrounded the accession of
this knowledge for though he was far from being without
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: you have a tuft which MUST be conquered.) A Jew proposed to supply me
with Italian cantatrices who, during the interludes, were to depilate
the young men of forty; but they proved to be girls from the
Conservatoire, and music-teachers from the Rue Montmartre. There you
are, monsieur; your head is dressed as that of a man of talent ought
to be. Ossian," he said to the lacquey in livery, "dress monsieur and
show him out. Whose turn next?" he added proudly, gazing round upon
the persons who awaited him.
"Don't laugh, Gazonal," said Leon as they reached the foot of the
staircase, whence his eye could take in the whole of the Place de la
Bourse. "I see over there one of our great men, and you shall compare
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