| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: ribbon to a musical masterpiece. You heard how the work was applauded;
it will go through five hundred performances! If the French really
understand that music----"
"It is because it expresses ideas," the Count put in.
"No; it is because it sets forth in a definite shape a picture of the
struggle in which so many perish, and because every individual life is
implicated in it through memory. Ah! I, hapless wretch, should have
been too happy to hear the sound of those heavenly voices I have so
often dreamed of."
Hereupon Gambara fell into a musical day-dream, improvising the most
lovely melodious and harmonious /cavatina/ that Andrea would ever hear
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: And hailed my promised land with cries.
Yes, Lady, here I was at last;
Here found I all I had forecast:
The long roll of the sapphire sea
That keeps the land's virginity;
The stalwart giants of the wood
Laden with toys and flowers and food;
The precious forest pouring out
To compass the whole town about;
The town itself with streets of lawn,
Loved of the moon, blessed by the dawn,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: Slator's disappointment and rascality so preyed
upon his base mind, that he, like Judas, went and
hanged himself.
As soon as Frank and Mary were safe, they
endeavoured to redeem their good mother. But,
alas! she was gone; she had passed on to the
realm of spirit life.
In due time Frank learned from his friends in
Georgia where his little brother and sister dwelt.
So he wrote at once to purchase them, but the
persons with whom they lived would not sell them.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
