| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: "Perhaps you will call me mad, but I cannot help thinking that my
neighbor, the gentleman in black who just walked away, was the cause
of my feeling cold."
Ere long the exaggeration to which people in society are naturally
inclined, produced a large and growing crop of the most amusing ideas,
the most curious expressions, the most absurd fables concerning this
mysterious individual. Without being precisely a vampire, a ghoul, a
fictitious man, a sort of Faust or Robin des Bois, he partook of the
nature of all these anthropomorphic conceptions, according to those
persons who were addicted to the fantastic. Occasionally some German
would take for realities these ingenious jests of Parisian evil-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: to offer?"
Well, she had come to it at last. Now for it! She drew a deep
breath and met his eyes squarely, all coquetry and airs gone as her
spirit rushed out to grapple that which she feared most.
"I--I have myself."
"Yes?"
Her jaw line tightened to squareness and her eyes went emerald.
"You remember that night on Aunt Pitty's porch, during the siege?
You said--you said then that you wanted me."
He leaned back carelessly in his chair and looked into her tense
face and his own dark face was inscrutable. Something flickered
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: XII. The Crater of Hell
XIII. Changes at Forlorn River
XIV. A Lost Son
XV. Bound In The Desert
XVI. Mountain Sheep
XVII. The Whistle of a Horse
XVIII. Reality Against Dreams
XIX. The Secret of Forlorn River
XX. Desert Gold
D E S E R T G O L D
PROLOGUE
Desert Gold |
