| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: BURGUNDY.
I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:
Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
PUCELLE.
Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.
Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,
Let Henry fret and all the world repine.
CHARLES.
Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. Before Angiers.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: garcons at the various cafes, from the cochers de fiacre in front
of the Exchange, from the tobacconist lady at the counter of the
fashionable Debit de Tabac, from the old man who sold papers
outside the cercle, and from the flower-girl at the door of the
fashionable restaurant where I had my table. That young woman,
whose business name was Irma, had come on duty about mid-day. She
said to Dominic: "I think I've seen all his friends this morning
but I haven't seen him for a week. What has become of him?"
"That's exactly what I want to know," Dominic replied in a fury and
then went back to the harbour on the chance that I might have
called either on board or at Madame Leonore's cafe.
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Is surely jesting. If you knew the life
Of artists as I know it, you might think
Far otherwise.
IPPOLITO.
But wherefore should I jest?
The world of art is an ideal world,--
The world I love, and that I fain would live in;
So speak to me of artists and of art,
Of all the painters, sculptors, and musicians
That now illustrate Rome.
FRA SEBASTIANO.
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