| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: is, in fact, a fine man; he has a good heart. She sees him from her
window; they see each other in church. But the young man no longer
thinks of her."
"His name?"
"Ah! to tell you that I must read it, or hear it. He is named
Savinien; she has just spoken his name; she thinks it sweet to say;
she has looked in the almanac for his fete-day and marked a red dot
against it,--child's play, that. Ah! she will love well, with as much
strength as purity; she is not a girl to love twice; love will so dye
her soul and fill it that she will reject all other sentiments."
"Where do you see that?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: broad Pacific upon a little island in the midst of a turbulent
stream.
And far uptown another sat with the same paper in her
hand. Barbara Harding was glancing through the sporting
sheet in search of the scores of yesterday's woman's golf
tournament. And as she searched her eyes suddenly became
riveted upon the picture of a giant man, and she forgot
about tournaments and low scores. Hastily she searched the
heads and text until she came upon the name--"'Sailor'
Byrne!"
Yes! It must be he. Greedily she read and re-read all that
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: Caliphs, the Pharoahs, the Xerxes, who held themselves to be of divine
origin, had of themselves when they imitated God, and veiled
themselves from their subjects under the pretext that their looks
dealt forth death. Thus, without any remorse at being at once the
judge and the accuser, De Marsay coldly condemned to death the man or
the woman who had seriously offended him. Although often pronounced
almost lightly, the verdict was irrevocable. An error was a misfortune
similar to that which a thunderbolt causes when it falls upon a
smiling Parisienne in some hackney coach, instead of crushing the old
coachman who is driving her to a /rendezvous/. Thus the bitter and
profound sarcasm which distinguished the young man's conversation
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
