| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: "Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.
These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very threshold I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
"Draw from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.
These herbs of bane to me did Moeris give,
In Pontus culled, where baneful herbs abound.
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: She seemed to feel the weight of all the snow
that lay down there. The branches had be-
come so hard that they wounded your hand if
you but tried to break a twig. And yet, down
under the frozen crusts, at the roots of the
trees, the secret of life was still safe, warm
as the blood in one's heart; and the spring
would come again! Oh, it would come again!
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: seemed to wish me to like him."
Glennard gave a short laugh. The defence was feebler than he had
expected: she was certainly not a clever woman.
"Your deference to my wishes is really beautiful; but it's not the
first time in history that a man has made a mistake in introducing
his friends to his wife. You must, at any rate, have seen since
then that my enthusiasm had cooled; but so, perhaps, has your
eagerness to oblige me."
She met this with a silence that seemed to rob the taunt of half
its efficacy.
"Is that what you imply?" he pressed her.
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