| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: I 'll by a sign give notice to our friends,
That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.
FIRST SOLDIER.
Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
Therefore we 'll knock. [Knocks.]
WATCH.
[Within] Qui est la?
PUCELLE.
Paysans, pauvres gens de France;
Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: of the evil destiny of his cousin, whom he determined, if possible,
to rescue from the jaws of Cerberus.
The sheriff of Nottingham, though still sore with his bruises,
was so intent on revenge, that he raised himself from his bed
to attend the execution of William Gamwell. He rode to the august
structure of retributive Themis, as the French call a gallows,
in all the pride and pomp of shrievalty, and with a splendid
retinue of well-equipped knaves and varlets, as our ancestors
called honest serving-men.
Young Gamwell was brought forth with his arms pinioned behind him;
his sister Alice and his father, Sir Guy, attending him in disconsolate mood.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy.
I dug my cellar in the side of a hill sloping to the south,
where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach
and blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet
square by seven deep, to a fine sand where potatoes would not freeze
in any winter. The sides were left shelving, and not stoned; but
the sun having never shone on them, the sand still keeps its place.
It was but two hours' work. I took particular pleasure in this
breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the
earth for an equable temperature. Under the most splendid house in
the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their
Walden |
