| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Religious love put out religion's eye:
Not to be tempted, would she be immur'd,
And now, to tempt all, liberty procur'd.
'How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!
The broken bosoms that to me belong
Have emptied all their fountains in my well,
And mine I pour your ocean all among:
I strong o'er them, and you o'er me being strong,
Must for your victory us all congest,
As compound love to physic your cold breast.
'My parts had pow'r to charm a sacred nun,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: "Well, speak, then, and manage it, and see if you can't turn over a
new leaf. That's what a man must do when he thinks o' marrying."
"I don't see how I can think of it at present, sir. You wouldn't
like to settle me on one of the farms, I suppose, and I don't think
she'd come to live in this house with all my brothers. It's a
different sort of life to what she's been used to."
"Not come to live in this house? Don't tell me. You ask her,
that's all," said the Squire, with a short, scornful laugh.
"I'd rather let the thing be, at present, sir," said Godfrey. "I
hope you won't try to hurry it on by saying anything."
"I shall do what I choose," said the Squire, "and I shall let you
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: "Bear!"
I returned with the box and placed it on the divan near her. She
sat cross-legged, leaning back on her arms, in the blue shimmer of
her embroidered robe and with the tawny halo of her unruly hair
about her face which she raised to mine with an air of resignation.
"George, my friend," she said, "we have no manners."
"You would never have made a career at court, Dona Rita," I
observed. "You are too impulsive."
"This is not bad manners, that's sheer insolence. This has
happened to you before. If it happens again, as I can't be
expected to wrestle with a savage and desperate smuggler single-
The Arrow of Gold |
