| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: them many good things of what there was in the house. Opposite
them sat Penelope, reclining on a couch by one of the
bearing-posts of the cloister, and spinning. Then they laid
their hands on the good things that were before them, and as
soon as they had had enough to eat and drink Penelope said:
"Telemachus, I shall go upstairs and lie down on that sad couch,
which I have not ceased to water with my tears, from the day
Ulysses set out for Troy with the sons of Atreus. You failed,
however, to make it clear to me before the suitors came back to
the house, whether or no you had been able to hear anything
about the return of your father."
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: that God had fought against the French on account of their
manifold sins and transgressions. Upon this there supervened
the agonies of a rough sea passage; and many French lords,
Charles, certainly, among the number, declared they would
rather endure such another defeat than such another sore
trial on shipboard. Charles, indeed, never forgot his
sufferings. Long afterwards, he declared his hatred to a
seafaring life, and willingly yielded to England the empire
of the seas, "because there is danger and loss of life, and
God knows what pity when it storms; and sea-sickness is for
many people hard to bear; and the rough life that must be led
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: till twelve.
But, sooner than the moral metamorphosis, a physical
metamorphosis came about in Marguerite. I had taken her cure in
hand, and the poor girl, seeing my aim, obeyed me in order to
prove her gratitude. I had succeeded without effort or trouble in
almost isolating her from her former habits. My doctor, whom I
had made her meet, had told me that only rest and calm could
preserve her health, so that in place of supper and sleepless
nights, I succeeded in substituting a hygienic regime and regular
sleep. In spite of herself, Marguerite got accustomed to this new
existence, whose salutary effects she already realized. She began
Camille |
