| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: wound upon her side.
'And now, Teule, I leave you a while, that I may find Guatemoc, if
he still lives, and others who, now that the strength of the
priests is shattered, have power to protect you and advance you to
honour. Think then on all that I have said, and do not be hasty to
decide. Or would you make an end at once and fly to the white men
if I can find a means of escape?'
'I am too weary to fly anywhere,' I answered, 'even if I could.
Moreover, I forget. My enemy is among the Spaniards, he whom I
have sworn to kill, therefore his friends are my foes and his foes
my friends. I will not fly, Otomie.'
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: "I will not oppose such kind politeness; but I should be sorry to be
examined by a real proficient."
"I have not had the pleasure of visiting in Camden Place so long,"
replied he, "without knowing something of Miss Anne Elliot;
and I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general
to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished
for modesty to be natural in any other woman."
"For shame! for shame! this is too much flattery. I forget what we are
to have next," turning to the bill.
"Perhaps," said Mr Elliot, speaking low, "I have had a longer acquaintance
with your character than you are aware of."
Persuasion |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Perchance against myself.
LORD JUSTICE
My liege, the law.
DUCHESS
He shall not speak, but, with gags in his mouth,
Shall climb the ladder to the bloody block.
LORD JUSTICE
The law, my liege.
DUCHESS
We are not bound by law,
But with it we bind others.
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