| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: palliatives,--merely delaying in France the moral and political
crisis that must come.
Adieu, dear Monsieur Grossetete; accept the assurance of my
respectful attachment, which, notwithstanding all these
observations, can only increase.
Gregoire Gerard.
According to his old habit as a banker, Grossetete had jotted down his
reply on the back of the letter itself, heading it with the
sacramental word, /Answered/.
It is useless, my dear Gerard, to discuss the observations made in
your letter, because by a trick of chance (I use the term which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: By-and-by this hill suddenly dropped down into a pretty valley,
where the travelers saw, to their surprise, a small house standing
by the road-side.
It was the first house they had seen, and they hastened into the
valley to discover who lived there. No one was in sight as they
approached, but when they began to get nearer the house they heard
queer sounds coming from it. They could not make these out at first,
but as they became louder our friends thought they heard a sort of
music like that made by a wheezy hand-organ; the music fell upon
their ears in this way:
Tiddle-widdle-iddle oom pom-pom!
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: enemy in his breast, he had schooled himself into a
systematic control of feelings and movements.
When one was in the secret this was apparent in his
manner. After the poor steward died, and as he
could not be replaced by a white man in this
Oriental port, Ransome had volunteered to do the
double work.
"I can do it all right, sir, as long as I go about it
quietly," he had assured me.
But obviously he couldn't be expected to take up
sick-nursing in addition. Moreover, the doctor
The Shadow Line |
