| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian
footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
TRANIO.
'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;
Yet oftentimes lie goes but mean-apparell'd.
BAPTISTA.
I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.
BIONDELLO.
Why, sir, he comes not.
BAPTISTA.
Didst thou not say he comes?
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: we became acquainted with each other for several
years before our marriage; in fact, our marriage
was postponed for some time simply because one
of the unjust and worse than Pagan laws under
which we lived compelled all children of slave
mothers to follow their condition. That is to say,
the father of the slave may be the President of the
Republic; but if the mother should be a slave at the
infant's birth, the poor child is ever legally doomed
to the same cruel fate.
It is a common practice for gentlemen (if I may
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: iussisset, non fore dicto audientes milites neque propter timorem signa
laturos.
Haec cum animadvertisset, convocato consilio omniumque ordinum ad id
consilium adhibitis centurionibus, vehementer eos incusavit: primum, quod
aut quam in partem aut quo consilio ducerentur sibi quaerendum aut
cogitandum putarent. Ariovistum se consule cupidissime populi Romani
amicitiam adpetisse; cur hunc tam temere quisquam ab officio discessurum
iudicaret? Sibi quidem persuaderi cognitis suis poslulatis atque
aequitate condicionum perspecta eum neque suam neque populi Romani gratiam
epudiaturum. Quod si furore atque amentia impulsum bellum intulisset,
quid tandem vererentur? Aut cur de sua virtute aut de ipsius diligentia
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