| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: Which is meager and hollow, but crisp:
Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist,
With a flavor of Will-o-the-wisp.
"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree
That it carries too far, when I say
That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,
And dines on the following day.
"The third is its slowness in taking a jest.
Should you happen to venture on one,
It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed:
And it always looks grave at a pun.
The Hunting of the Snark |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: you to theirs? You used to be a friend of Lord Staveley.
I met him at dinner last week. Your name happened to come up
in conversation, in connection with the miniatures you have lent
to the exhibition at the Dudley. Staveley curled his lip and said
that you might have the most artistic tastes, but that you
were a man whom no pure-minded girl should be allowed to know,
and whom no chaste woman should sit in the same room with.
I reminded him that I was a friend of yours, and asked him what
he meant. He told me. He told me right out before everybody.
It was horrible! Why is your friendship so fatal to young men?
There was that wretched boy in the Guards who committed suicide.
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: while the pack swayed about the bar, vociferous. Then came a
brutal impulse; the mob reeled, and returned, and was rejected; the
stair showed a stream of heads; and there shot into view, through
the disbanding ranks, three men violently dragging in their midst a
fourth. By his hair and his hands, his head forced as low as his
knees, his face concealed, he was wrenched from the verandah and
whisked along the road into the village, howling as he disappeared.
Had his face been raised, we should have seen it bloodied, and the
blood was not his own. The courtier with the turban of frizzed
hair had paid the costs of this disturbance with the lower part of
one ear.
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