| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Since martial Locrine is bereft of life,
Shall Estrild live, then, after Locrine's death?
Shall love of life bar her from Locrine's sword?
O no, this sword, that hath bereft his life,
Shall now deprive me of my fleeting soul;
Strengthen these hands, O mighty Jupiter,
That I may end my woeful misery.
Locrine, I come; Locrine, I follow thee.
[Kill her self.]
[Sound the alarm. Enter Sabren.]
SABREN.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Before dark the vessel moved slowly out of the harbor,
setting a course across the strait in the direction
that the war prahus had taken. When it was apparent
that there was no danger that the head hunters would
return, the lascar came from his hiding place, and
dancing up and down upon the shore screamed warlike
challenges and taunts at the retreating enemy.
Von Horn also came forth, much to the sailor's
surprise, and in silence the two stood watching the
disappearing ship. At length they turned and made
their way up the stream toward camp--there was no
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: your sins! It is a nice system of business, when you pay for your
crime by an act of contrition! You seduce a woman that you may
set your foot on such and such a rung of the social ladder; you
sow dissension among the children of a family; you descend, in
short, to every base action that can be committed at home or
abroad, to gain your own ends for your own pleasure or your
profit; and can you imagine that these are acts of faith, hope,
or charity? How is it that a dandy, who in a night has robbed a
boy of half his fortune, gets only a couple of months in prison;
while a poor devil who steals a banknote for a thousand francs,
with aggravating circumstances, is condemned to penal servitude?
Father Goriot |
