| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Nur. O Lord, I could haue staid here all night,
To heare good counsell: oh what learning is!
My Lord Ile tell my Lady you will come
Rom. Do so, and bid my Sweete prepare to chide
Nur. Heere sir, a Ring she bid me giue you sir:
Hie you, make hast, for it growes very late
Rom. How well my comfort is reuiu'd by this
Fri. Go hence,
Goodnight, and here stands all your state:
Either be gone before the watch be set,
Or by the breake of day disguis'd from hence,
Romeo and Juliet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: and the protocol being drawn up, all is in order; you will
only keep a duplicate of the protocol, and intrust the tulip
to him. Ah! if we had been able to carry it ourselves, Rosa,
it would never have left my hands but to pass into yours;
but this is a dream, which we must not entertain," continued
Cornelius with a sigh, "the eyes of strangers will see it
flower to the last. And above all, Rosa, before the
President has seen it, let it not be seen by any one. Alas!
if any one saw the black tulip, it would be stolen."
"Oh!"
"Did you not tell me yourself of what you apprehended from
The Black Tulip |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: "Cleveland!"--she cried, with great agitation.
"No, I cannot go to Cleveland."--
"You forget," said Elinor gently, "that its situation
is not...that it is not in the neighbourhood of..."
"But it is in Somersetshire.--I cannot go
into Somersetshire.--There, where I looked forward
to going...No, Elinor, you cannot expect me to go there."
Elinor would not argue upon the propriety of overcoming
such feelings;--she only endeavoured to counteract them by
working on others;--represented it, therefore, as a measure
which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother,
Sense and Sensibility |
