| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Defende with his oghne hond,
And slen, if that he mai no bet,
After the lawe which is set. 2240
Now, fader, thanne I you beseche
Of hem that dedly werres seche
In worldes cause and scheden blod,
If such an homicide is good.
Mi Sone, upon thi question
The trowthe of myn opinion,
Als ferforth as my wit arecheth
And as the pleine lawe techeth,
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: royal science, if he had been able to do this, would have imposed upon
himself the restriction of a written law.
YOUNG SOCRATES: So I should infer from what has now been said.
STRANGER: Or rather, my good friend, from what is going to be said.
YOUNG SOCRATES: And what is that?
STRANGER: Let us put to ourselves the case of a physician, or trainer, who
is about to go into a far country, and is expecting to be a long time away
from his patients--thinking that his instructions will not be remembered
unless they are written down, he will leave notes of them for the use of
his pupils or patients.
YOUNG SOCRATES: True.
Statesman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: give more weight to her message. "Dey Cookie say Miss Meade done
got wud early dis mawnin' dat young Mist' Phil done been shot an'
Miss Meade she tuck de cah'ige an' Ole Talbot an' Betsy an' dey
done gone ter fotch him home. Cookie say he bad hurt an' Miss
Meade ain' gwine ter be studyin' 'bout comin' up hyah."
Scarlett stared at her and had an impulse to shake her. Negroes
were always so proud of being the bearers of evil tidings.
"Well, don't stand there like a ninny. Go down to Mrs.
Merriwether's and ask her to come up or send her mammy. Now,
hurry."
"Dey ain' dar, Miss Scarlett. Ah drapped in ter pass time of de
Gone With the Wind |
