| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: books, a science which, to use his own expression, pertains to the
sergeant-majors of commerce. The simple-hearted soldier, whom fortune
had forgotten for twenty years, thought himself the happiest man in
the world as the owner of the little house (which his master's
liberality had furnished), with twelve hundred francs a year from
money in the funds, and a salary of three thousand six hundred. Never
in his dreams had Lieutenant Dumay hoped for a situation so good as
this; but greater still was the satisfaction he derived from the
knowledge that his lucky enterprise had been the pivot of good fortune
to the richest commercial house in Havre.
Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to
Modeste Mignon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: months of his had been filled with dissatisfaction, yet he had been
too apathetic to understand himself. So he had not been much of
a person to try.. Perhaps it had not been the blow to Rojas any
more than other things that had wrought some change in him.
His meeting with Thorne; the wonderful black eyes of a Spanish
girl; her appeal to him; the hate inspired by Rojas, and the rush,
the blow, the action; sight of Thorne and Mercedes hurrying safely away;
the girl's hand pressing his to her heaving breast; the sweet fire
of her kiss; the fact of her being alone with him, dependent upon him--
all these things Gale turned over and over in his mind, only to fail
of any definite conclusion as to which had affect him so remarkably,
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: "The Dreams of My Heart"
"A Little While"
The Garden
The Wine
In a Cuban Garden
"If I Must Go"
VII
In Spring, Santa Barbara
White Fog
Arcturus
Moonlight
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