| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: will be more than silly talk that shall part us when the fight is
over. Learn, then, my lineage if you will--and it is known to
many.
"In the beginning Dardanus was the son of Jove, and founded
Dardania, for Ilius was not yet stablished on the plain for men
to dwell in, and her people still abode on the spurs of
many-fountained Ida. Dardanus had a son, king Erichthonius, who
was wealthiest of all men living; he had three thousand mares
that fed by the water-meadows, they and their foals with them.
Boreas was enamoured of them as they were feeding, and covered
them in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion. Twelve filly
The Iliad |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: He leaned down, took her face in his hands, and kissed her lightly
on the forehead.
"Scarlett! Scarlett! You are so fine and strong and good. So
beautiful, not just your sweet face, my dear, but all of you, your
body and your mind and your soul."
"Oh, Ashley," she whispered happily, thrilling at his words and his
touch on her face. "Nobody else but you ever--"
"I like to think that perhaps I know you better than most people
and that I can see beautiful things buried deep in you that others
are too careless and too hurried to notice."
He stopped speaking and his hands dropped from her face, but his
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: cabs in sight. Claudine scolded du Bruel soundly; and as we rolled
through the streets (for she set me down at Florine's), she continued
the quarrel with a series of most mortifying remarks.
" 'What is this about?' I inquired.
" 'Oh, my dear fellow, she blames me for allowing you to run out for a
cab, and thereupon proceeds to wish for a carriage.'
" 'As a dancer,' said she, 'I have never been accustomed to use my
feet except on the boards. If you have any spirit, you will turn out
four more plays or so in a year; you will make up your mind that
succeed they must, when you think of the end in view, and that your
wife will not walk in the mud. It is a shame that I should have to ask
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