| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: That thus I have resign'd to you my charge.
FIRST MURDERER. You may, sir; 'tis a point of wisdom. Fare
you well. Exeunt BRAKENBURY and KEEPER
SECOND MURDERER. What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?
FIRST MURDERER. No; he'll say 'twas done cowardly, when
he wakes.
SECOND MURDERER. Why, he shall never wake until the great
judgment-day.
FIRST MURDERER. Why, then he'll say we stabb'd him
sleeping.
SECOND MURDERER. The urging of that word judgment hath
Richard III |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: out into the world. "I have considered my career choices," he said,
"and I don't know whether to become a poet or a merchant."
The second man had just married a wife and was about to buy a house
for them to live in. "I have investigated many houses carefully,"
he said, "and have found two that would be suitable. The first
house is nearly new and well designed but damp inside, while the
second is light and airy but older and not so well designed. I
don't know which to choose."
"Your problems are one," said The Wise One, as he picked up a honey
comb and squeezed it until the honey was drained out into a bowl.
"You both must choose between the wax and the honey."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: reasonable a husband as he had been, on the whole, a brother,
his wife would have nothing to complain of.
Felix looked at her a moment, smiling. "I hope," he said,
"not to be thrown back on my reason."
"It is very true," Eugenia rejoined, "that one's reason is dismally flat.
It 's a bed with the mattress removed."
But the brother and sister, later in the evening, crossed over to
the larger house, the Baroness desiring to compliment her prospective
sister-in-law. They found the usual circle upon the piazza,
with the exception of Clifford Wentworth and Lizzie Acton;
and as every one stood up as usual to welcome the Baroness,
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