| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: The scars of battle 'scapeth by the flight,
And makes her absence valiant, not her might.
'O pardon me, in that my boast is true:
The accident which brought me to her eye,
Upon the moment did her force subdue,
And now she would the caged cloister fly:
Religious love put out religion's eye:
Not to be tempted, would she be immur'd,
And now, to tempt all, liberty procur'd.
'How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!
The broken bosoms that to me belong
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: had wanted so much to be alone. She looked at him, but was curiously
submissive.
'Shall we play a game, or shall I read to you, or what shall it be?' he
asked uneasily.
'You read to me,' said Connie.
'What shall I read--verse or prose? Or drama?'
'Read Racine,' she said.
It had been one of his stunts in the past, to read Racine in the real
French grand manner, but he was rusty now, and a little self-conscious;
he really preferred the loudspeaker. But Connie was sewing, sewing a
little frock silk of primrose silk, cut out of one of her dresses, for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: they alone know where to find it. The nomes were ruled,
at the time of which I write, by a King named Kaliko.
King Gos had expected to be pursued by Inga in his
magic boat, so he made all the haste possible, urging
his forty rowers to their best efforts night and day.
To his joy he was not overtaken but landed on the sandy
beach of the Wheelers on the morning of the eighth day.
The forty rowers were left with the boat, while Queen
Cor and King Cos, with their royal prisoners, who were
still chained, began the journey to the Nome King.
It was not long before they passed the sands and
Rinkitink In Oz |
