| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: it soothing religious thoughts. It is religion that lives in that
beautiful song in E major, with its wonderful harmonic and melodic
progression in the words:
"Car dans les cieux, comme sur la terre,
Sa mere va prier pour lui.
"Here the struggle begins between the unseen powers and the only human
being who has the fire of hell in his veins to enable him to resist
them; and to make this quite clear, as Bertram comes on, the great
musician has given the orchestra a passage introducing a reminiscence
of Raimbaut's ballad. What a stroke of art! What cohesion of all the
parts! What solidity of structure!
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: sharp word and sent him out to get his dinner. She felt better
when he was gone, for his disapproval annoyed her, and she settled
herself in a split-bottomed chair by the roaring stove, tucked one
foot under her and spread the book across her lap. It was dinner
time and the streets were deserted. No customers called and she
had the store to herself.
She turned the pages slowly, narrowly scanning the rows of names
and figures written in Frank's cramped copperplate hand. It was
just as she had expected, and she frowned as she saw this newest
evidence of Frank's lack of business sense. At least five hundred
dollars in debts, some of them months old, were set down against
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: "Plain! (replied He) My dear Susan, you cannot really think so!
Why what single Feature in the face of either of them, can you
possibly find fault with?"
"Oh! trust me for that; (replied I). Come I will begin with the
eldest--with Matilda. Shall I, William?" (I looked as cunning as
I could when I said it, in order to shame him).
"They are so much alike (said he) that I should suppose the
faults of one, would be the faults of both."
"Well, then, in the first place; they are both so horribly tall!"
"They are TALLER than you are indeed." (said he with a saucy
smile.)
Love and Friendship |
