| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: making sweethearts the sweeter, was not here. Why? Because
experience was absent. A woman must have had many kisses before
she kisses well.
In fact, the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes
follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for
performing the trick called Forcing a Card. The card is to be
shifted nimbly, withdrawn, edged under, and withal not to be
offered till the moment the unsuspecting person's hand reaches the
pack; this forcing to be done so modestly and yet so coaxingly,
that the person trifled with imagines he is really choosing what
is in fact thrust into his hand.
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: favour of the Gods to-day.
13 All ye, the Gods whom Savitar the Father of truth, and Varuna
and
Mitra govern,
Give us prosperity with hero children, and opulence in kine
and
various treasure.
14 Savitar, Savitar from cast and westward, Savitar, Savitar
from
north and southward,
Savitar send us perfect health and comfort, Savitar let our
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: And will approve fair Isabel's descent,
Able to yoke their stubborn necks with steel,
That spurn against my sovereignty in France.
[Sound a horn.]
A messenger?--Lord Audley, know from whence.
[Exit Audley, and returns.]
AUDLEY.
The Duke of Lorrain, having crossed the seas,
Entreats he may have conference with your highness.
KING EDWARD.
Admit him, Lords, that we may hear the news.
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