| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: Suit that I go fishing in.
Grown Up
Last year he wanted building blocks,
And picture books and toys,
A saddle horse that gayly rocks,
And games for little boys.
But now he's big and all that stuff
His whim no longer suits;
He tells us that he's old enough
To ask for rubber boots.
Last year whatever Santa brought
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: a supper, and was about to enter the carriage of her faithless friend.
At this critical moment her arm was grasped by a powerful hand, and
she was taken, in spite of her struggles, to her own carriage, the
door of which stood open, though she did not know it was there.
"He has never left Paris!" she exclaimed to herself as she recognized
Thaddeus, who disappeared when the carriage drove away.
Did any woman ever have a like romance in her life? Clementine is
constantly hoping she may again see Paz.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bianchon, Horace
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: the motionless lake. No one in the army could tell what festival was
being celebrated.
On the following day the Barbarian's passed through a region that was
covered with cultivation. The domains of the patricians succeeded one
another along the border of the route; channels of water flowed
through woods of palm; there were long, green lines of olive-trees;
rose-coloured vapours floated in the gorges of the hills, while blue
mountains reared themselves behind. A warm wind was blowing.
Chameleons were crawling on the broad leaves of the cactus.
The Barbarians slackened their speed.
They marched on in isolated detachments, or lagged behind one another
Salammbo |
