| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: is pity."
"Pity?"
"Yes, and a little contempt. Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell
me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I
shouldn't dare to be so presumptuous as to feel either pity or
contempt for him. And when you have finished swelling, I'll tell
you what I mean, if you're interested."
"Well, I'm not."
"I shall tell you, just the same, for I can't bear for you to go on
nursing your pleasant delusion of my jealousy. I pity him because
he ought to be dead and he isn't. And I have a contempt for him
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,
And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?
HELICANUS.
That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
TYRIAN SAILOR.
Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.
[Enter two or three Gentlemen.]
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Doth your lordship call?
HELICANUS.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: SOCRATES: Are you going, Alcibiades, to offer prayer to Zeus?
ALCIBIADES: Yes, Socrates, I am.
SOCRATES: you seem to be troubled and to cast your eyes on the ground, as
though you were thinking about something.
ALCIBIADES: Of what do you suppose that I am thinking?
SOCRATES: Of the greatest of all things, as I believe. Tell me, do you
not suppose that the Gods sometimes partly grant and partly reject the
requests which we make in public and private, and favour some persons and
not others?
ALCIBIADES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Do you not imagine, then, that a man ought to be very careful,
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