| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: purse to Janet, and desired her to compute the amount, and to pay
the pedlar; while she herself, as if tired of the amusement she
at first found in conversing with him, wished him good evening,
and walked carelessly into the house, thus depriving Wayland of
every opportunity to speak with her in private. He hastened,
however, to attempt an explanation with Janet.
"Maiden," he said, "thou hast the face of one who should love her
mistress. She hath much need of faithful service."
"And well deserves it at my hands," replied Janet; "but
what of that?"
"Maiden, I am not altogether what I seem," said the pedlar,
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: behind him and dropped it violently at
his side. He felt a tremor run through
the slender yellow figure in front of him.
She caught his handkerchief from her
throat and thrust it at him without turning
round. "Here, take it. You must go now,
Bartley. Good-night."
Bartley leaned over her shoulder, without
touching her, and whispered in her ear:
"You are giving me a chance?"
"Yes. Take it and go. This isn't fair,
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: Valkyries, and Siegfried.
SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT
The philosophically fertile element in the original project of
Siegfried's Death was the conception of Siegfried himself as a
type of the healthy man raised to perfect confidence in his own
impulses by an intense and joyous vitality which is above fear,
sickliness of conscience, malice, and the makeshifts and moral
crutches of law and order which accompany them. Such a character
appears extraordinarily fascinating and exhilarating to our
guilty and conscience-ridden generations, however little they may
understand him. The world has always delighted in the man who is
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