| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: PAROLLES.
You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.
LAFEU.
I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot
bring thee.
PAROLLES.
What I dare too well do, I dare not do.
LAFEU.
I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise
fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might
pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: feed the cows and horses, light the stoves, clean
the boots, prepare the samovars and polish them
afterwards; or the clerk would get him to bring
up the goods; or the cook would set him to knead
the bread and clean the saucepans. Then he was
sent to town on various errands, to bring the
daughter home from school, or to get some olive
oil for the old mother. "Why the devil have
you been so long?" first one, then another, would
say to him. Why should they go? Alyosha can
go. "Alyosha! Alyosha!" And Alyosha ran
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: The far-off murmur as when many come;
Up from the village surged the blind and beating
Red music of a drum;
And the hysterical sharp fife that shattered
The brittle autumn air,
While they came, the young men marching
Past the village square. . . .
Across the calm Connecticut the hills change
To violet, the veils of dusk are deep --
Earth takes her children's many sorrows calmly
And stills herself to sleep.
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