| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: such limbs as them. Tremble, Willet, and despair. She's mine!
She's mine!'
With these triumphant expressions, he seized a hammer and dealt a
heavy blow at a vice, which in his mind's eye represented the
sconce or head of Joseph Willet. That done, he burst into a peal
of laughter which startled Miss Miggs even in her distant kitchen,
and dipping his head into a bowl of water, had recourse to a jack-
towel inside the closet door, which served the double purpose of
smothering his feelings and drying his face.
Joe, disconsolate and down-hearted, but full of courage too, on
leaving the locksmith's house made the best of his way to the
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Laugh at the gales, and through the elm-tops win
From story up to story.
Now while yet
The leaves are in their first fresh infant growth,
Forbear their frailty, and while yet the bough
Shoots joyfully toward heaven, with loosened rein
Launched on the void, assail it not as yet
With keen-edged sickle, but let the leaves alone
Be culled with clip of fingers here and there.
But when they clasp the elms with sturdy trunks
Erect, then strip the leaves off, prune the boughs;
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: if I lived to come safe to England, I would deliver his letters,
and do his business effectually; and that he might depend I should
never forget the circumstances I had left him in. But still I was
impatient to know who was the person to be married; upon which he
told me it was my Jack-of-all-trades and his maid Susan. I was
most agreeably surprised when he named the match; for, indeed, I
thought it very suitable. The character of that man I have given
already; and as for the maid, she was a very honest, modest, sober,
and religious young woman: had a very good share of sense, was
agreeable enough in her person, spoke very handsomely and to the
purpose, always with decency and good manners, and was neither too
Robinson Crusoe |
