| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: planted. He had said to Rosa, --
"I shall tell you the day when you are to put the bulb in
the ground."
He had intended to fix, at the vainly hoped for interview,
the following day as the time for that momentous operation.
The weather was propitious; the air, though still damp,
began to be tempered by those pale rays of the April sun
which, being the first, appear so congenial, although so
pale. How if Rosa allowed the right moment for planting the
bulb to pass by, -- if, in addition to the grief of seeing
her no more, he should have to deplore the misfortune of
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: To love and favour Lady Gwendoline.
Consider this, that if the injury
Do move her mind, as certainly it will,
War and dissention follows speedily.
What though her power be not so great as yours?
Have you not seen a mighty elephant
Slain by the biting of a silly mouse?
Even so the chance of war inconstant is.
LOCRINE.
Peace, uncle, peace, and cease to talk hereof;
For he that seeks, by whispering this or that,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: things are all packed up.
And why should we not go homewards in the yacht, things and all?
What, all the way to England?
No, not so far as that; but these kind people, when they came into
the harbour last night, offered to take us up the coast to a town,
where we will sleep, and start comfortably home to-morrow morning.
So now you will have a chance of seeing something of the great sea
outside, and of seeing, perhaps, the whale himself.
I hope we shall see the whale. The men say he has been outside
the harbour every day this week after the fish.
Very good. Now do you keep quiet, and out of the way, while we
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