| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: young that she could hide the disorders of her life from their eyes,
and could win their love; she had given them the best and most
brilliant education. I confess that I cannot help admiring her and
feeling sorry for her. Gobseck used to joke me about it. Just about
that time she had discovered Maxime's baseness, and was expiating the
sins of the past in tears of blood. I was sure of it. Hateful as were
the measures which she took for regaining control of her husband's
money, were they not the result of a mother's love, and a desire to
repair the wrongs she had done her children? And again, it may be,
like many a woman who has experienced the storm of lawless love, she
felt a longing to lead a virtuous life again. Perhaps she only learned
Gobseck |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: talked to us to-night, Hugh knows,--Hugh could walk there like
a king!"
He thought the woman mad, tried to check her, but she went on,
fierce in her eager haste.
"If I were t' witch dwarf, if I had t' money, wud hur thank me?
Wud hur take me out o' this place wid hur and Janey? I wud not
come into the gran' house hur wud build, to vex hur wid t'
hunch,--only at night, when t' shadows were dark, stand far off
to see hur."
Mad? Yes! Are many of us mad in this way?
"Poor Deb! poor Deb!" he said, soothingly.
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
Halting before the throne he addressed his jeddak in a voice
that was plainly audible to all within the chamber.
"O Kulan Tith, Mightiest of Jeddaks," he cried, after the
fashion of the court, "your messenger returns alone, for when he
reached the apartments of the Father of Therns he found them empty,
as were those occupied by his suite."
Kulan Tith went white.
The Warlord of Mars |
