| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: told you, my young Lady bid me enquire you out, what
she bid me say, I will keepe to my selfe: but first let me
tell ye, if ye should leade her in a fooles paradise, as they
say, it were a very grosse kind of behauiour, as they say:
for the Gentlewoman is yong: & therefore, if you should
deale double with her, truely it were an ill thing to be offered
to any Gentlewoman, and very weake dealing
Nur. Nurse commend me to thy Lady and Mistresse, I
protest vnto thee
Nur. Good heart, and yfaith I will tell her as much:
Lord, Lord she will be a ioyfull woman
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: cornice. The cornice is quite an institution in the boudoir; what is
it but the confessional, /minus/ the priest?
Mme. de Beauseant was eloquent and beautiful at that moment; nay,
"coquettish," if the word were not too heavy. By justifying herself
and love, she was stimulating every sentiment in the man before her;
nay, more, the higher she set the goal, the more conspicuous it grew.
At last, when her eyes had lost the too eloquent expression given to
them by painful memories, she let them fall on Gaston.
"You acknowledge, do you not, that I am bound to lead a solitary,
self-contained life?" she said quietly.
So sublime was she in her reasoning and her madness, that M. de Nueil
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: me."
"Then I say no more; but you are a fated man."
From that time forward he spoke not another word to either of the
others.
A heavy gleam appeared in the woman's eyes. "Now things are changed,
Maskull. Where are you taking me?"
"Choose, you."
"The man I love must complete his journey. I won't have it otherwise.
You shall not stand lower than Corpang."
"Where you go, I will go."
"And I - as long as your love endures, I will accompany you even to
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