| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Go to the Bay, and disimbarke my Coffers:
Bring thou the Master to the Cittadell,
He is a good one, and his worthynesse
Do's challenge much respect. Come Desdemona,
Once more well met at Cyprus.
Exit Othello and Desdemona.
Iago. Do thou meet me presently at the Harbour.
Come thither, if thou be'st Valiant, (as they say base men
being in Loue, haue then a Nobilitie in their Natures,
more then is natiue to them) list-me; the Lieutenant to
night watches on the Court of Guard. First, I must tell
Othello |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: night. He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance,
and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had
almost come.
'They whistle jest in tune with my breathin' naow,'
he said, 'an' I guess they're gittin' ready to ketch my soul.
They know it's a-goin' aout, an' dun't calc'late to miss it. Yew'll
know, boys, arter I'm gone, whether they git me er not. Ef they
dew, they'll keep up a-singin' an' laffin' till break o' day.
Ef they dun't they'll kinder quiet daown like. I expeck them an'
the souls they hunts fer hev some pretty tough tussles sometimes.'
On Lammas Night, 1924, Dr Houghton of Aylesbury was hastily
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: his heart.
"And a very good thing too," said Lisbeth. "I was working myself to
death. You see, child, money comes in slowly in the business you have
taken up, for this is the first you have earned, and you have been
grinding at it for near on five years now. That money barely repays me
for what you have cost me since I took your promissory note; that is
all I have got by my savings. But be sure of one thing," she said,
after counting the gold, "this money will all be spent on you. There
is enough there to keep us going for a year. In a year you may now be
able to pay your debt and have a snug little sum of your own, if you
go on in the same way."
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