| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: will say no more about the money, her fortune is made."
"In my opinion," put in Desroches, "the finest things that I have seen
in a duel of this kind give those who know Paris a far better picture
of the city than all the fancy portraits that they paint. Some of you
think that you know a thing or two," he continued, glancing round at
Nathan, Bixiou, La Palferine, and Lousteau, "but the king of the
ground is a certain Count, now busy ranging himself. In his time, he
was supposed to be the cleverest, adroitest, canniest, boldest,
stoutest, most subtle and experienced of all the pirates, who,
equipped with fine manners, yellow kid gloves, and cabs, have ever
sailed or ever will sail upon the stormy seas of Paris. He fears
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: either a very large man or a very small one,
and I am only in the middle class."
Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if
you go away, you will not come back. Some-
thing will happen to one of us, or to both.
People have to snatch at happiness when they
can, in this world. It is always easier to lose
than to find. What I have is yours, if you care
enough about me to take it."
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: coast of England, and where we arrived in two-and-thirty days,
but were then ruffled with two or three storms, one of which
drove us away to the coast of Ireland, and we put in at Kinsdale.
We remained there about thirteen days, got some refreshment
on shore, and put to sea again, though we met with very bad
weather again, in which the ship sprung her mainmast, as they
called it, for I knew not what they meant. But we got at last
into Milford Haven, in Wales, where, though it was remote
from our port, yet having my foot safe upon the firm ground
of my native country, the isle of Britain, I resolved to venture
it no more upon the waters, which had been so terrible to me;
Moll Flanders |
