| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: in St. John Street; her booty made at the fire, and again at
Harwich, all give us excellent warnings in such cases to be
more present to ourselves in sudden surprises of every sort.
Her application to a sober life and industrious management at
last in Virginia, with her transported spouse, is a story fruitful
of instruction to all the unfortunate creatures who are obliged
to seek their re-establishment abroad, whether by the misery
of transportation or other disaster; letting them know that
diligence and application have their due encouragement, even
in the remotest parts of the world, and that no case can be so
low, so despicable, or so empty of prospect, but that an
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: capable of work and rational thought! In fact, it's a case of 'I
look with mournful eyes on the young men of today.' "
"Yes; they have degenerated horribly," Katya agrees. "Tell me,
have you had one man of distinction among them for the last five
or ten years?"
"I don't know how it is with the other professors, but I can't
remember any among mine."
"I have seen in my day many of your students and young scientific
men and many actors -- well, I have never once been so fortunate
as to meet -- I won't say a hero or a man of talent, but even an
interesting man. It's all the same grey mediocrity, puffed up
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?
Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights,
And shew the best of our delights.
Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you performe your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
Musicke. The Witches Dance, and vanish.
Macb. Where are they? Gone?
Let this pernitious houre,
Stand aye accursed in the Kalender.
Macbeth |
