| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: THALIARD.
From him I come
With message unto princely Pericles;
But since my landing I have understood
Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,
My message must return from whence it came.
HELICANUS.
We have no reason to desire it,
Commended to our master, not to us:
Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: called to one of his men, asked something about the dam at the
mouth of the canyon, where the main irrigation ditch began, made
a remark about the prolonged drought, and then walked to his
dining-room door, where, as he expected, Shorty met him.
"Say," said the youth, "do you consider that's any way to talk
about a good horse?"
"Any dude could see the leg's sprung," said Balaam. But he looked
at Pedro's shoulder, which was well laid back; and he admired his
points, dark in contrast with the buckskin, and also the width
between the eyes.
"Now you know," whined Shorty, "that it ain't sprung any more
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: remained in New York without repaying the money she owed to
Trenor; to acquit herself of that odious debt she might even have
faced a marriage with Rosedale; but the accident of placing the
Atlantic between herself and her obligations made them dwindle
out of sight as if they had been milestones and she had travelled
past them.
Her two months on the Sabrina had been especially calculated to
aid this illusion of distance. She had been plunged into
new scenes, and had found in them a renewal of old hopes and
ambitions. The cruise itself charmed her as a romantic adventure.
She was vaguely touched by the names and scenes amid which she
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