| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: She had the wrong; but what said Henry's queen?
For I have heard that she was there in place.
MESSENGER.
'Tell him' quoth she 'my mourning weeds are done,
And I am ready to put armour on.'
KING EDWARD.
Belike she minds to play the Amazon.
But what said Warwick to these injuries?
MESSENGER.
He, more incens'd against your majesty
Than all the rest, discharg'd me with these words:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: world. The dinner and the evening were full of cheerfulness,
justified, indeed, by the relief of the two refugees, but depressing
to Rodolphe.
"Can she be fickle?" he asked himself as he returned to the Stopfers'
house. "She sympathized in my sorrow, and I cannot take part in her
joy!"
He blamed himself, justifying this girl-wife.
"She has no taint of hypocrisy, and is carried away by impulse,"
thought he, "and I want her to be like a Parisian woman."
Next day and the following days, in fact, for twenty days after,
Rodolphe spent all his time at the Bergmanns', watching Francesca
Albert Savarus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: you will not lose your life through me."
"Yes," cried Milady, "but I shall lose that which is much dearer
to me than life, I shall lose my honor, Felton; and it is you,
you whom I make responsible, before God and before men, for my
shame and my infamy."
This time Felton, immovable as he was, or appeared to be, could
not resist the secret influence which had already taken
possession of him. To see this woman, so beautiful, fair as the
brightest vision, to see her by turns overcome with grief and
threatening; to resist at once the ascendancy of grief and
beauty--it was too much for a visionary; it was too much for a
The Three Musketeers |
