| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?
Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
GRUMIO.
[Aside] For he fears none.
GREMIO.
Hortensio, hark:
This gentleman is happily arriv'd,
My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.
HORTENSIO.
I promis'd we would be contributors,
And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'er.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: clasped Adelaide in his arms, pressed her to his heart, and stole
a kiss; then with the simple heartiness of an artist, "I ask for
her for my wife!" he exclaimed, looking at the Baroness.
Adelaide looked at him with half-wrathful eyes, and Madame de
Rouville, somewhat astonished, was considering her reply, when
the scene was interrupted by a ring at the bell. The old vice-
admiral came in, followed by his shadow, and Madame Schinner.
Having guessed the cause of the grief her son vainly endeavored
to conceal, Hippolyte's mother had made inquiries among her
friends concerning Adelaide. Very justly alarmed by the calumnies
which weighed on the young girl, unknown to the Comte de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: of the stream. On the edge of this plain Wetzel broke into a run. He kept this
pace for a distance of an hundred yards, then stopped to listen intently as he
glanced sharply on all sides, after which he was off again.
Half way across this plain Joe's wind began to fail, and his breathing became
labored; but he kept close to the hunter's heels. Once he looked back to see a
great wide expanse of waving grass. They had covered perhaps four miles at a
rapid pace, and were nearing the other side of the plain. The lad felt as if
his head was about to burst; a sharp pain seized upon his side; a blood-red
film obscured his sight. He kept doggedly on, and when utterly exhausted fell
to the ground.
When, a few minutes later, having recovered his breath, he got up, they had
The Spirit of the Border |
