| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: Another Study of Woman
La Grande Breteche
Bordin
The Gondreville Mystery
The Seamy Side of History
Jealousies of a Country Town
Camusot de Marville
Cousin Pons
Jealousies of a Country Town
Scenes from a Cuortesan's Life
Desroches (son)
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Broom behind the windy town; pollen o' the pine --
Bell-bird in the leafy deep where the ~ratas~ twine --
Fern above the saddle-bow, flax upon the plain --
Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again!
Buy my English posies!
Ye that have your own
Buy them for a brother's sake
Overseas, alone.
Weed ye trample underfoot
Floods his heart abrim --
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: tempest of sobs, unable to speak. He finished his meal, and remained
idly thrown back in his chair, his eyes lost amongst the black rafters
of the ceiling. Before him the tallow candle flared red and straight,
sending up a slender thread of smoke. The light lay on the rough,
sunburnt skin of his throat; the sunk cheeks were like patches of
darkness, and his aspect was mournfully stolid, as if he had
ruminated with difficulty endless ideas. Then he said, deliberately--
"We must see . . . consult people. Don't cry. . . . They won't all be
like that . . . surely! We must sleep now."
After the third child, also a boy, was born, Jean-Pierre went about
his work with tense hopefulness. His lips seemed more narrow, more
Tales of Unrest |
