| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: BOULT.
O, sir, I can be modest.
LYSIMACHUS.
That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it gives a good
report to a number to be chaste.
[Exit Boult.]
BAWD.
Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never plucked yet, I
can assure you.
[Re-enter Boult with Marina.]
Is she not a fair creature?
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: And so we sat down to the food around the light of a good many
candles while she remained crouching out there, staring in the dark
as if feeding her bad temper on the heavily scented air of the
admirable garden.
Before leaving I said to Jacobus that I would come next day to hear
if the bag affair had made any progress. He shook his head
slightly at that.
"I'll haunt your house daily till you pull it off. You'll be
always finding me here."
His faint, melancholy smile did not part his thick lips.
"That will be all right, Captain."
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: Those whom you dragged from death before?
So Providence on mortals waits,
Preserving what it first creates,
You generous boldness to defend
An innocent and absent friend;
That courage which can make you just,
To merit humbled in the dust;
The detestation you express
For vice in all its glittering dress:
That patience under to torturing pain,
Where stubborn stoics would complain.
|
