| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: he determined to take a pink one, as more suitable to the state of his
feelings. He began:
"Kopje Alone,
"Monday afternoon.
"My Dear Jemima--"
Then he looked up into the little glass opposite. It was a youthful face
reflected there, with curling brown beard and hair; but in the dark blue
eyes there was a look of languid longing that touched him. He re-dipped
his pen and wrote:
"When I look up into the little glass that hangs opposite me, I wonder if
that changed and sad face--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: to stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air,
and she said nothing more.
The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would
fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came;
not hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly,
and approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little,
and, by the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing
at him.
She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside
me in a little bed, will she not, sir?"
The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:--
Les Miserables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven.
Solon marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform
him exactly and in order about these former citizens. You are welcome to
hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your own sake and for
that of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the
common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She founded your
city a thousand years before ours (Observe that Plato gives the same date
(9000 years ago) for the foundation of Athens and for the repulse of the
invasion from Atlantis (Crit.).), receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus
the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the
constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be 8000 years old. As
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