| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: the bit went to the closed stable where the horse he was to
harness was standing by himself.
'What, feeling lonely, feeling lonely, little silly?' said
Nikita in answer to the low whinny with which he was greeted by
the good-tempered, medium-sized bay stallion, with a rather
slanting crupper, who stood alone in the shed. 'Now then, now
then, there's time enough. Let me water you first,' he went
on, speaking to the horse just as to someone who understood the
words he was using, and having whisked the dusty, grooved back
of the well-fed young stallion with the skirt of his coat, he
put a bridle on his handsome head, straightened his ears and
Master and Man |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: irascible, touchy, restless temper was against me. No one
understood that this irritability was the distress and toil of a
man who, at the bottom of the social scale, is struggling to
reach the surface. Still, I had, as I may say to you, before whom
I need wear no draperies, I had that ground-bed of good feeling
and keen sensitiveness which must always be the birthright of any
man who is strong enough to climb to any height whatever, after
having long trampled in the bogs of poverty. I could obtain
nothing from my family, nor from my home, beyond my inadequate
allowance. In short, at that time, I breakfasted off a roll which
the baker in the Rue du Petit-Lion sold me cheap because it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: beyond the Ural Mountains, so as to judge for himself of
the truth of these rumors, and enable him to guard against
any possible contingency. He was thinking of seeking
more direct intelligence from some native of Kasan, when
his attention was suddenly diverted.
Among the passengers who were leaving the Caucasus,
Michael recognized the troop of Tsiganes who, the day
before, had appeared in the Nijni-Novgorod fair. There,
on the deck of the steamboat were the old Bohemian and
the woman. With them, and no doubt under their direc-
tion, landed about twenty dancers and singers, from fifteen
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