| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: ever find his maternal relationship acknowledged by so great a man.
During the years 1843 and 1844 Gazonal attended to his lawsuit. This
suit concerned a question as to the current and level of a stream of
water and the necessity of removing a dam, in which dispute the
administration, instigated by the abutters on the river banks, had
meddled. The removal of the dam threatened the existence of Gazonal's
manufactory. In 1845, Gazonal considered his cause as wholly lost; the
secretary of the Master of Petitions, charged with the duty of drawing
up the report, had confided to him that the said report would
assuredly be against him, and his own lawyer confirmed the statement.
Gazonal, though commander of the National Guard in his own town and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: death. Let a decree issue declaring ingenuity a capital offence."
Two Kings
THE King of Madagao, being engaged in a dispute with the King of
Bornegascar, wrote him as follows:
"Before proceeding further in this matter I demand the recall of
your Minister from my capital."
Greatly enraged by this impossible demand, the King of Bornegascar
replied:
"I shall not recall my Minister. Moreover, if you do not
immediately retract your demand I shall withdraw him!"
This threat so terrified the King of Madagao that in hastening to
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: "And who do you reckon is this mowing idiot here that's
letting on all these weeks to be a deef and dumb stranger?
It's--JUBITER Dunlap!"
My land, they all busted out in a howl, and you never see
the like of that excitement since the day you was born.
And Tom he made a jump for Jubiter and snaked off his goggles
and his false whiskers, and there was the murdered man,
sure enough, just as alive as anybody! And Aunt Sally
and Benny they went to hugging and crying and kissing
and smothering old Uncle Silas to that degree he was more
muddled and confused and mushed up in his mind than he ever
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