| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Yield! Come before my father. Light, ho, here!
Fly, brother.- Torches, torches!- So farewell.
Exit Edgar.
Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
Of my more fierce endeavour. [Stabs his arm.] I have seen
drunkards
Do more than this in sport.- Father, father!-
Stop, stop! No help?
Enter Gloucester, and Servants with torches.
Glou. Now, Edmund, where's the villain?
Edm. Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: of wise Polybus, whom now the men of Ithaca look upon, even
as if he were a god. For he is far the best man of them
all, and is most eager to wed my mother and to have the
sovereignty of Odysseus. Howbeit, Olympian Zeus, that
dwells in the clear sky, knows hereof, whether or no he
will fulfill for them the evil day before their marriage.'
Now even as he spake, a bird flew out on the right, a hawk,
the swift messenger of Apollo. In his talons he held a dove
and plucked her, and shed the feathers down to the earth,
midway between the ship and Telemachus himself. Then
Theoclymenus called him apart from his fellows, and clasped
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: them. Are you coming out?" Emil asked
impatiently.
"Yes, sit down. I'll be dressed in a mo-
ment."
Alexandra closed her door, and Emil sank
down on the old slat lounge and sat with his
head in his hands. When his sister came out, he
looked up, not knowing whether the interval
had been short or long, and he was surprised to
O Pioneers! |
