| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: They had not influenced his nature. Then had come Lord Henry
Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning
of its brevity. That had stirred him at the time, and now,
as he stood gazing at the shadow of his own loveliness, the full
reality of the description flashed across him. Yes, there would
be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim
and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed.
The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from
his hair. The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: object of his affections, argued Babalatchi, and in that case
they would have to use force in order to make him go. Would the
Rajah see that trusty men manned the canoe? The thing must be
done secretly. Perhaps the Rajah would come himself, so as to
bring all the weight of his authority to bear upon Dain if he
should prove obstinate and refuse to leave his hiding-place. The
Rajah would not commit himself to a definite promise, and
anxiously pressed Babalatchi to go, being afraid of the white men
paying him an unexpected visit. The aged statesman reluctantly
took his leave and went into the courtyard.
Before going down to his boat Babalatchi stopped for a while in
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: have them still. O, my knave,--how does my old lady?
CLOWN.
So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as
you say.
PAROLLES.
Why, I say nothing.
CLOWN.
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing: to say nothing, to do nothing, to know
nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your
title; which is within a very little of nothing.
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