| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Goriot nor young Bianchon was in the dining-room with the others.
"Aha!" said the painter as Eugene came in, "Father Goriot has
broken down at last. Bianchon is upstairs with him. One of his
daughters--the Comtesse de Restaurama--came to see the old
gentleman, and he would get up and go out, and made himself
worse. Society is about to lose one of its brightest ornaments."
Rastignac sprang to the staircase.
"Hey! Monsieur Eugene!"
"Monsieur Eugene, the mistress is calling you," shouted Sylvie.
"It is this, sir," said the widow. "You and M. Goriot should by
rights have moved out on the 15th of February. That was three
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "He went to New York this morning. He pretended to be going on
business, but he's actually gone to see that actress. He's been
mad about her for months."
"I don't believe it."
"Oh, wake up," Nina said impatiently. "The world isn't made up of
good, kind, virtuous people. It's rotten. And men are all alike.
Dick Livingstone and Les and all the rest - tarred with the same
stick. As long as there are women like this Carlysle creature
they'll fall for them. And you and I can sit at home and chew our
nails and plan to keep them by us. And we can't do it."
In spite of herself a little question of doubt crept that day into
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: the case of other plant-growths[17] what is found to answer so well
with the vine?
[16] {akrodrua} = "edible fruits" in Xenophon's time. See Plat.
"Criti." 115 B; Dem. "c. Nicostr." 1251; Aristot. "Hist. An."
viii. 28. 8, {out akrodrua out opora khronios}; Theophr. "H. Pl."
iv. 4. 11. (At a later period, see "Geopon." x. 74, = "fruits
having a hard rind or shell," e.g. nuts, acorns, as opposed to
pears, apples, grapes, etc., {opora}.) See further the interesting
regulations in Plat. "Laws," 844 D, 845 C.
[17] Lit. "planting in general."
Soc. How shall we plant the olive, pray, Ischomachus?
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