| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: WAR
Now men began to whisper together and Goza groaned at my side.
"Rather would I look down a live lion's throat than see the
dead," he murmured. But I, who was anxious to learn how far
Zikali would carry his tricks, contemptuously told him to be
silent.
Presently the king called me to him and said--
"Macumazahn, you white men are reported to know all things. Tell
me now, is it possible for the dead to appear?"
"I am not sure," I answered doubtfully; "some say that it is and
some say that it is not possible."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: fearless. He is the same that he ever was, but milder and gentler, and he
has in no degree lost his interest in dialectics; he will not forego the
delight of an argument in compliance with the jailer's intimation that he
should not heat himself with talking. At such a time he naturally
expresses the hope of his life, that he has been a true mystic and not a
mere retainer or wand-bearer: and he refers to passages of his personal
history. To his old enemies the Comic poets, and to the proceedings on the
trial, he alludes playfully; but he vividly remembers the disappointment
which he felt in reading the books of Anaxagoras. The return of Xanthippe
and his children indicates that the philosopher is not 'made of oak or
rock.' Some other traits of his character may be noted; for example, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Lear. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
thy
uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more
than
this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the
beast
no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's
three
on's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself;
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton
King Lear |
