| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: With but a wife, a husband, and a friend
To give it greeting? Let Death go to houses
Where there are vile, adulterous things, chaste wives
Who growing weary of their noble lords
Draw back the curtains of their marriage beds,
And in polluted and dishonoured sheets
Feed some unlawful lust. Ay! 'tis so
Strange, and yet so. YOU do not know the world.
YOU are too single and too honourable.
I know it well. And would it were not so,
But wisdom comes with winters. My hair grows grey,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: Enchanted Ground. And again, in his rhymed prologue, he
shall assign some of the glory of the siege of Doubting
Castle to his favourite Valiant-for-the-Truth, who did not
meet with the besiegers till long after, at that dangerous
corner by Deadman's Lane. And, with all inconsistencies and
freedoms, there is a power shown in these sequences of cuts:
a power of joining on one action or one humour to another; a
power of following out the moods, even of the dismal
subterhuman fiends engendered by the artist's fancy; a power
of sustained continuous realisation, step by step, in
nature's order, that can tell a story, in all its ins and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: `T was the women who in Spring-time
Planted the broad fields and fruitful,
Buried in the earth Mondamin;
`T was the women who in Autumn
Stripped the yellow husks of harvest,
Stripped the garments from Mondamin,
Even as Hiawatha taught them.
Once, when all the maize was planted,
Hiawatha, wise and thoughtful,
Spake and said to Minnehaha,
To his wife, the Laughing Water:
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