| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Recovere myhte his hele ayein.
Lo, thus sche cride and thus sche preide,
Til ate laste a vois hir seide,
That if sche wolde for his sake
The maladie soffre and take, 1930
And deie hirself, he scholde live.
Of this ansuere Alceste hath yive
Unto Minerve gret thonkinge,
So that hir deth and his livinge
Sche ches with al hire hole entente,
And thus acorded hom sche wente.
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that Barunda possessed the power to rob him of it all,
so at last he acquiesced, though with poor grace.
Bulan had stood near during this conversation, unable,
of course, to understand a single word of the native tongue.
"What does the man say?" he asked Barunda. "Has he
seen anything of the prahu bearing the girl?"
"Yes," replied the Dyak. "He says that two hours ago
such a war prahu passed on its way up river--he saw the
white girl plainly. Also he knows whither they are bound,
and how, by crossing through the jungle on foot, you may
intercept them at their next stop."
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: compared in my mind this pale and weeping woman with the madcap
who had made fun of me at the Opera Comique.
"You shall not go," I said, putting myself in front of the door.
"Why?"
"Because, in spite of what you have done to me, I love you
always, and I want you to stay here."
"To turn me out to-morrow? No; it is impossible. Our destinies
are separate; do not try to reunite them. You will despise me
perhaps, while now you can only hate me."
"No, Marguerite," I cried, feeling all my love and all my desire
reawaken at the contact of this woman. "No, I will forget
Camille |
