| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: live a thousand years, and may her fame extend all over the surface of
the globe, for she deserves to be loved by a knight so valiant and
so virtuous; and may kind heaven infuse zeal into the heart of our
governor Sancho Panza to finish off his discipline speedily, so that
the world may once more enjoy the beauty of so grand a lady."
To which Don Quixote replied, "Your highness has spoken like what
you are; from the mouth of a noble lady nothing bad can come; and
Dulcinea will be more fortunate, and better known to the world by
the praise of your highness than by all the eulogies the greatest
orators on earth could bestow upon her."
"Well, well, Senor Don Quixote," said the duchess, is nearly
Don Quixote |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: [2] The same may be said of the formulated statement of the
subject in Morris Jastrow's Handbooks of the History of Religion,
vol. iv.
There are three main difficulties. The first is to understand
why primitive Man should name his Tribe after an
animal or object of nature at all; the second, to understand
on what principle he selected the particular name (a lion, a
crocodile, a lady bird, a certain tree); the third, why he should
make of the said totem a divinity, and pay honor and worship
to it. It may be worth while to pause for a moment
over these.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: LORETTA. [Beginning to weep.] Not more than five.
BILLY. [With conviction.] Eight at least.
LORETTA. [Reproachfully, still weeping.] You told me it was all
right.
BILLY. [Emphatically.] So it was all right--until you said you
wouldn't marry me after all. Then it was a scandal--only no one
knows it yet. If you marry me no one ever will know it. [Looks
at watch.] I've got to go. [Stands up.] Where's my hat?
LORETTA. [Sobbing.] This is awful.
BILLY. [Approvingly.] You bet it's awful. And there's only one
way out. [Looks anxiously about for hat.] What do you say?
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