| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: I kept my eyes on the thing at the window and saw it move and shift
its posture. I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel,
for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast.
My present quickened courage, however, was such that, not too
much to let it through, I had to shade, as it were, my flame.
Meanwhile the glare of the face was again at the window, the scoundrel
fixed as if to watch and wait. It was the very confidence
that I might now defy him, as well as the positive certitude,
by this time, of the child's unconsciousness, that made me go on.
"What did you take it for?"
"To see what you said about me."
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: Why,--that you are my daughter?
HELENA.
That I am not.
COUNTESS.
I say, I am your mother.
HELENA.
Pardon, madam;
The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:
I am from humble, he from honour'd name;
No note upon my parents, his all noble;
My master, my dear lord he is; and I
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Romeo. Out
Ben. Of loue
Rom. Out of her fauour where I am in loue
Ben. Alas that loue so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proofe
Rom. Alas that loue, whose view is muffled still,
Should without eyes, see path-wayes to his will:
Where shall we dine? O me: what fray was heere?
Yet tell me not, for I haue heard it all:
Heere's much to do with hate, but more with loue:
Why then, O brawling loue, O louing hate,
Romeo and Juliet |
