| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with Swords and Bucklers, of the
House of
Capulet.
Sampson. Gregory: A my word wee'l not carry coales
Greg. No, for then we should be Colliars
Samp. I mean, if we be in choller, wee'l draw
Greg. I, While you liue, draw your necke out
o'th Collar
Samp. I strike quickly, being mou'd
Greg. But thou art not quickly mou'd to strike
Romeo and Juliet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the ruined Whateley farmhouse when the horror escaped. Men looked
at one another and muttered. Then they looked down the hill. Apparently
the horror had descended by a route much the same as that of its
ascent. To speculate was futile. Reason, logic, and normal ideas
of motivation stood confounded. Only old Zebulon, who was not
with the group, could have done justice to the situation or suggested
a plausible explanation.
Thursday night began much like the
others, but it ended less happily. The whippoorwills in the glen
had screamed with such unusual persistence that many could not
sleep, and about 3 A.M. all the party telephones rang tremulously.
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: from them. I have seen the enterprising chemist and stationer
begging me with fervour to let my account run on, although I had my
purse open in my hand; and partly from the commonness of the case,
partly from some remains of that generous old Mexican tradition
which made all men welcome to their tables, a person may be
notoriously both unwilling and unable to pay, and still find credit
for the necessaries of life in the stores of Monterey. Now this
villainous habit of living upon "tick" has grown into Californian
nature. I do not mean that the American and European storekeepers
of Monterey are as lax as Mexicans; I mean that American farmers in
many parts of the State expect unlimited credit, and profit by it
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