| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: draw, and asked her if she saw extravagant romance in that.
They wrote up from Calcutta that they would like to have a look at
Armour before making the final recommendation, and he left us, I
remember, by the mail tonga of the third of June. He dropped into
my office to say goodbye, but I was busy with the Member and could
see nobody, so he left a card with 'P.P.C.' on it. I kept the card
by accident, and I keep it still by design, for the sake of that
inscription.
Strobo had given up his hotel in Simla to start one in Calcutta. It
never occurred to me that Armour might go to Strobo's; but it was,
of course, the natural thing for him to do, especially as Strobo
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: violent progression. Neither was his eagerness proportioned in
all cases to the motive of impulse, but might be compared to the
sped of a stone, which rushes with like fury down the hill
whether it was first put in motion by the arm of a giant or the
hand of a boy. He felt, therefore, in no ordinary degree, the
headlong impulse of the chase, a pastime so natural to youth of
all ranks, that it seems rather to be an inherent passion in our
animal nature, which levels all differences of rank and
education, than an acquired habit of rapid exercise.
The repeated bursts of the French horn, which was then always
used for the encouragement and direction of the hounds; the deep,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: As all the world is cheered by the sun,
So I by that; it is my day, my life.
ANNE. Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!
GLOUCESTER. Curse not thyself, fair creature; thou art both.
ANNE. I would I were, to be reveng'd on thee.
GLOUCESTER. It is a quarrel most unnatural,
To be reveng'd on him that loveth thee.
ANNE. It is a quarrel just and reasonable,
To be reveng'd on him that kill'd my husband.
GLOUCESTER. He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband
Did it to help thee to a better husband.
Richard III |
