| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Egmont. The same.
Ferdinand. He lives, he is free.
Egmont. He knows her dwelling; let him guide thy steps thither, and
reward him to his dying day, for having shown thee the way to this jewel.-
-Farewell!
Ferdinand. I cannot leave thee.
Egmont (urging him towards the door). Farewell!
Ferdinand. Oh, let me linger yet a moment!
Egmont. No leave-taking, my friend.
(He accompanies Ferdinand to the door, and then tears himself away;
Ferdinand, overwhelmed with grief, hastily retires.)
Egmont |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: do? Jean maun baith sing her psalms and busk her cockernony the
gate the gudeman likes, and nae ither gate; for he's maister and
mair at hame, I can tell ye, Mr. Balderstone."
"Ay, ay, and does he guide the gear too?" said Caleb, to whose
projects masculine rule boded little good.
"Ilka penny on't; but he'll dress her as dink as a daisy, as ye
see; sae she has little reason to complain: where there's ane
better aff there's ten waur."
"Aweel, gudewife," said Caleb, crestfallen, but not beaten off,
"that wasna the way ye guided your gudeman; bt ilka land has its
ain lauch. I maun be ganging. I just wanted to round in the
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: shall be illuminated - ahem!) None the less, the plague, qua
plague, ceased and took off (for we only lost three more, and two
of 'em had it already on 'em) from the morning of the day that
Mars enlightened me by the Lower Mill.' He coughed - almost
trumpeted - triumphantly.
'It is proved,' he jerked out. 'I say I have proved my contention,
which is, that by Divine Astrology and humble search into the
veritable causes of things - at the proper time - the sons of
wisdom may combat even the plague.'
H'm!' Puck replied. 'For my own part I hold that a simple soul -'
'Mine? Simple, forsooth?' said Mr Culpeper.
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