| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: CROMWELL.
Come, go with me; thou shalt have cheer good store.
And farewell, Antwerp, if I come no more.
HODGE.
I follow thee, sweet Tom, I follow thee.
[Exit omnes.]
ACT II. SCENE III. Another street in the same.
[Enter the Governour of the English house, Bagot, Banister,
his wife, and two officers.]
GOVERNOUR.
Is Cromwell gone then, say you, master Bagot?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: pastime is to fight the Frenchies and then live to fight another
day."
Byrne found it a hard matter not to fall into listening to the
silence. Somehow he had the conviction that nothing would break it
unless he heard again the haunting sound of Tom's voice. He had
heard it twice before. Odd! And yet no wonder, he argued with
himself reasonably, since he had been thinking of the man for over
thirty hours continuously and, what's more, inconclusively. For
his anxiety for Tom had never taken a definite shape. "Disappear,"
was the only word connected with the idea of Tom's danger. It was
very vague and awful. "Disappear!" What did that mean?
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: is rather taken aback.] But I am your cousin Cecily. You, I see
from your card, are Uncle Jack's brother, my cousin Ernest, my
wicked cousin Ernest.
ALGERNON. Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You
mustn't think that I am wicked.
CECILY. If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us
all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading
a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
ALGERNON. [Looks at her in amazement.] Oh! Of course I have been
rather reckless.
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