| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: With this, he took his post at the head of his troops,
whilst the tumult grew fiercer and fiercer about the
Buytenhof.
And yet the fuming crowd did not know that, at that very
moment when they were tracking the scent of one of their
victims, the other, as if hurrying to meet his fate, passed,
at a distance of not more than a hundred yards, behind the
groups of people and the dragoons, to betake himself to the
Buytenhof.
John de Witt, indeed, had alighted from his coach with his
servant, and quietly walked across the courtyard of the
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: To be my mistress and my secret love.
I will not stand to hear thee make reply:
Thy oath break hers, or let thy sovereign die.
[Exit.]
WARWICK.
O doting King! O detestable office!
Well may I tempt my self to wrong my self,
When he hath sworn me by the name of God
To break a vow made by the name of God.
What, if I swear by this right hand of mine
To cut this right hand off? The better way
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: news of your poor sister? You needn't look at me like that," she
added. "Ever since they've all turned against her, all those
who're a thousand times worse than she, I've thought she did a
very fine thing. I can't forgive Vronsky for not letting me know
when she was in Petersburg. I'd have gone to see her and gone
about with her everywhere. Please give her my love. Come, tell me
about her."
"Yes, her position is very difficult; she . . ." began Stepan
Arkadyevitch, in the simplicity of his heart accepting as
sterling coin I'rincess Myakaya's words "tell me about her."
Princess Myakaya interrupted him immediately, as she always did,
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