| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Then the Tinker spat upon his hands and, grasping his staff,
came straight at the other. He struck two or three blows, but soon
found that he had met his match, for Robin warded and parried all
of them, and, before the Tinker thought, he gave him a rap upon
the ribs in return. At this Robin laughed aloud, and the Tinker grew
more angry than ever, and smote again with all his might and main.
Again Robin warded two of the strokes, but at the third, his staff
broke beneath the mighty blows of the Tinker. "Now, ill betide thee,
traitor staff," cried Robin, as it fell from his hands; "a foul stick
art thou to serve me thus in mine hour of need."
"Now yield thee," quoth the Tinker, "for thou art my captive;
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: and remember him, though I was then only a child."
This was what he said, but all the time he was expecting to be
able to string the bow and shoot through the iron, whereas in
fact he was to be the first that should taste of the arrows from
the hands of Ulysses, whom he was dishonouring in his own
house--egging the others on to do so also.
Then Telemachus spoke. "Great heavens!" he exclaimed, "Jove must
have robbed me of my senses. Here is my dear and excellent
mother saying she will quit this house and marry again, yet I am
laughing and enjoying myself as though there were nothing
happening. But, suitors, as the contest has been agreed upon,
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: of opium, and retire to the bush to eat and sleep it off. A
trader, who did not sell opium, confessed to me that he was at his
wit's end. 'I do not sell it, but others do,' said he. 'The
natives only work to buy it; if they walk over to me to sell their
cotton, they have just to walk over to some one else to buy their
opium with my money. And why should they be at the bother of two
walks? There is no use talking,' he added - 'opium is the currency
of this country.'
The man under prevention during my stay at Tai-o-hae lost patience
while the Chinese opium-seller was being examined in his presence.
'Of course he sold me opium!' he broke out; 'all the Chinese here
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