| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: bye to my dear daughter, of course. [LORD WINDERMERE bites his
under lip in anger. MRS. ERLYNNE looks at him, and her voice and
manner become serious. In her accents at she talks there is a note
of deep tragedy. For a moment she reveals herself.] Oh, don't
imagine I am going to have a pathetic scene with her, weep on her
neck and tell her who I am, and all that kind of thing. I have no
ambition to play the part of a mother. Only once in my life like I
known a mother's feelings. That was last night. They were
terrible - they made me suffer - they made me suffer too much. For
twenty years, as you say, I have lived childless, - I want to live
childless still. [Hiding her feelings with a trivial laugh.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: mercer. "I am withstood in seeking to recover mine own."
"Thou swearest thy gods in vain, foul paynim," said Wayland, "for
I will through with mine purpose were death at the end on't.
Nevertheless, know, thou false man of frail cambric and
ferrateen, that I am he, even the pedlar, whom thou didst boast
to meet on Maiden Castle moor, and despoil of his pack;
wherefore betake thee to thy weapons presently."
"I spoke but in jest, man," said Goldthred; "I am an honest
shopkeeper and citizen, who scorns to leap forth on any man from
behind a hedge."
"Then, by my faith, most puissant mercer," answered Wayland, "I
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: What really passed I never learned,
Nor guessed: I only know
That, when at last my sense returned,
The lamp, neglected, dimly burned -
The fire was getting low -
Through driving mists I seemed to see
A Thing that smirked and smiled:
And found that he was giving me
A lesson in Biography,
As if I were a child.
CANTO IV - Hys Nouryture
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