| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Of thing which ferst to the partie
Belongeth of Philosophie,
Which Theorique cleped is,
As thou tofore hast herd er this. 1500
Bot nou to speke of the secounde,
Which Aristotle hath also founde,
And techeth hou to speke faire,
Which is a thing full necessaire
To contrepeise the balance,
Wher lacketh other sufficance.
Above alle erthli creatures
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: all the furniture with cretonne, to put up curtains, to weed the
garden, to make a little bridge on the pond, and to plant Bowers.
But he forgot many other essential matters, the want of which
greatly distressed Darya Alexandrovna later on.
In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive
father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a
wife and children. He had bachelor tastes, and it was in
accordance with them that he shaped his life. On his return to
Moscow he informed his wife with pride that everything was ready,
that the house would be a little paradise, and that he advised
her most certainly to go. His wife's staying away in the country
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: His convalescence was a long one and he lay quietly looking out of
the window at the magnolias and causing very little trouble to
anyone. Carreen liked him because of his placid and unembarrassed
silences. She would sit beside him through the long hot
afternoons, fanning him and saying nothing.
Carreen had very little to say these days as she moved, delicate
and wraithlike, about the tasks which were within her strength.
She prayed a good deal, for when Scarlett came into her room
without knocking, she always found her on her knees by her bed.
The sight never failed to annoy her, for Scarlett felt that the
time for prayer had passed. If God had seen fit to punish them so,
Gone With the Wind |
