| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: stroll was over, and the two families parted again,
he should think it right to attend Mrs. Grant and her
sister to their home, while Mr. Crawford was devoted
to the ladies of the Park; but she thought it a very
bad exchange; and if Edmund were not there to mix the wine
and water for her, would rather go without it than not.
She was a little surprised that he could spend so many
hours with Miss Crawford, and not see more of the sort
of fault which he had already observed, and of which _she_
was almost always reminded by a something of the same
nature whenever she was in her company; but so it was.
Mansfield Park |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Whilst they had killed the dead.
For he who sins a second time
Wakes a dead soul to pain,
And draws it from its spotted shroud,
And makes it bleed again,
And makes it bleed great gouts of blood,
And makes it bleed in vain!
Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: Though the Minister has business to attend to, the man is enchanted to
have a reason for calling on one of the Queens of Paris, one of the
Powers of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, one of the favorites of the
Dauphiness, of MADAME, or of the King. Casimir Perier, the only real
statesman of the Revolution of July, would leave anything to call on a
retired Gentleman of the bed-chamber to King Charles X.
This theory accounts for the magical effect of the words:
"Madame,--Madame Camusot, on very important business, which she says
you know of," spoken in Madame d'Espard's ear by her maid, who thought
she was awake.
And the Marquise desired that Amelie should be shown in at once.
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