| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: of Beaugency wine; I prefer that."
"Ah, ah! You have credit with your landlord, then?" asked
Porthos.
"Yes," replied D'Artagnan, "from this very day; and mind, if the
wine is bad, we will send him to find better."
"We must use, and not abuse," said Aramis, sententiously.
"I always said that D'Artagnan had the longest head of the four,"
said Athos, who, having uttered his opinion, to which D'Artagnan
replied with a bow, immediately resumed his accustomed silence.
"But come, what is this about?" asked Porthos.
"Yes," said Aramis, "impart it to us, my dear friend, unless the
The Three Musketeers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: happened to have in my purse--some three or four shillings: good or
bad, they must partake of my jubilee. The rooks cawed, and blither
birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own
rejoicing heart.
Mrs. Fairfax surprised me by looking out of the window with a sad
countenance, and saying gravely--"Miss Eyre, will you come to
breakfast?" During the meal she was quiet and cool: but I could
not undeceive her then. I must wait for my master to give
explanations; and so must she. I ate what I could, and then I
hastened upstairs. I met Adele leaving the schoolroom.
"Where are you going? It is time for lessons."
Jane Eyre |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: poor families, cut off by poverty and town life from the contemplation
of the beauty of the earth, with its dresses of leaves, its scarves of
cloud, and its contours of hill and valley, who would positively be
happier as hogs, so little have they cultivated their humanity by the
only effective instrument of culture: art. The dearth is
artificially maintained even when there are the means of satisfying
it. Story books are forbidden, picture post cards are forbidden,
theatres are forbidden, operas are forbidden, circuses are forbidden,
sweetmeats are forbidden, pretty colors are forbidden, all exactly as
vice is forbidden. The Creator is explicitly prayed to, and
implicitly convicted of indecency every day. An association of vice
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