| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: TRANIO.
What countryman, I pray?
PEDANT.
Of Mantua.
TRANIO.
Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid,
And come to Padua, careless of your life!
PEDANT.
My life, sir! How, I pray? for that goes hard.
TRANIO.
'Tis death for any one in Mantua
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: to water.
Gasping for breath, she drew the bar from her
prison door and walked slowly into the room.
Nance's tall, bony figure was still crouched over
the open bag, her left hand buried in the gold, her
right gripping the knife, her face convulsed with
greed--avarice and murder blended into perfect hell-lit
unity at last.
Jim lay on his back, limp and still, obliquely
across the couch, his breast bared in the struggle, the
blood oozing a widening scarlet blot on his white
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: center of a typical Main Street block, a vista hidden from
casual strollers. The backs of the chief establishments in town
surrounded a quadrangle neglected, dirty, and incomparably
dismal. From the front, Howland & Gould's grocery was
smug enough, but attached to the rear was a lean-to of storm
streaked pine lumber with a sanded tar roof--a staggering
doubtful shed behind which was a heap of ashes, splintered
packing-boxes, shreds of excelsior, crumpled straw-board,
broken olive-bottles, rotten fruit, and utterly disintegrated
vegetables: orange carrots turning black, and potatoes with
ulcers. The rear of the Bon Ton Store was grim with blistered
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