| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: PARIS, February 1836.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Note: The Commission in Lunacy is also known as The Interdiction and
is referred to by that title in certain of the addendums.
Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Meno by Plato: are the guides of man; for things which happen by chance are not under the
guidance of man: but the guides of man are true opinion and knowledge.
MENO: I think so too.
SOCRATES: But if virtue is not taught, neither is virtue knowledge.
MENO: Clearly not.
SOCRATES: Then of two good and useful things, one, which is knowledge, has
been set aside, and cannot be supposed to be our guide in political life.
MENO: I think not.
SOCRATES: And therefore not by any wisdom, and not because they were wise,
did Themistocles and those others of whom Anytus spoke govern states. This
was the reason why they were unable to make others like themselves--because
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: she had to take this favor from a man she disliked and distrusted,
was hardly gracious in her thanks.
But he failed to notice it. As he escorted her to the door, he
said: "Mrs. Merriwether, I have always had a great regard for your
knowledge and I wonder if you could tell me something?"
The plumes on her bonnet barely moved as she nodded.
"What did you do when your Maybelle was little and she sucked her
thumb?"
"What?"
"My Bonnie sucks her thumb. I can't make her stop it."
"You should make her stop it," said Mrs. Merriwether vigorously.
Gone With the Wind |
