| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "I know they would. That's just what I'm afraid of."
"Well, we must do something, and if you- "
Suddenly there fell upon our ears the scrambling, clattering
noise which invariably accompanies the descent of anybody rash
enough to enter a Cornish cove with undue haste in leather-soled
shoes. The Mermaid darted behind a rock, and I advanced
gratefully up the foreshore to the fringe of stones. The noise
grew louder, and the slips more frequent, until there was one
long one, and then a thud. Up rose a fat oath. After a moment
or two, there limped into sight- oh, blessed spectacle!- one of
the hotel porters, conventionally hatless and coatless.
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: person!''
``The devil,'' said the Preceptor, ``I think, possessed
you both. How oft have I preached to you
caution, if not continence? Did I not tell you that
there were enough willing Christian damsels to be
met with, who would think it sin to refuse so brave
a knight _le don d'amoureux merci_, and you must
needs anchor your affection on a wilful, obstinate
Jewess! By the mass, I think old Lucas Beaumanoir
guesses right, when he maintains she hath
cast a spell over you.''
Ivanhoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: when sweet sleep came speedily upon him, sleep that loosens
the limbs of men, unknitting the cares of his soul.
Then the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, turned to new thoughts.
When she deemed that Odysseus had taken his fill of love
and sleep, straightway she aroused from out Oceanus the
golden-throned Dawn, to bear light to men. Then Odysseus
gat him from his soft bed, and laid this charge on his
wife, saying:
'Lady, already have we had enough of labours, thou and I;
thou, in weeping here, and longing for my troublous return,
I, while Zeus and the other gods bound me fast in pain,
The Odyssey |
