| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched
some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.
The whole appearance of the dungeon might
have appalled a stouter heart than that of Isaac,
who, nevertheless, was more composed under the
imminent pressure of danger, than he had seemed
to be while affected by terrors, of which the cause
was as yet remote and contingent. The lovers of the
chase say that the hare feels more agony during the
pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling
in their fangs.* And thus it is probable, that
Ivanhoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: 'You make me blush,' returned his father gaily, 'for the folly of
your nature, in which--but we never know ourselves--I devoutly hope
there is no reflection of my own. With regard to the young lady
herself, she has done what is very natural and proper, my dear
fellow; what you yourself proposed, as I learn from Haredale; and
what I predicted--with no great exercise of sagacity--she would do.
She supposed you to be rich, or at least quite rich enough; and
found you poor. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to
better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an
affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and
so forth. The lady being poor and you poor also, there is an end
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: dressed the clothes covered much of its roughness. The
head of Jack Pumpkinhead was, as you have guessed, a
ripe pumpkin, with the eyes, nose and mouth carved upon
one side. The pumpkin was stuck on Jack's wooden neck
and was liable to get turned sidewise or backward and
then he would have to straighten it with his wooden
hands.
The worst thing about this sort of a head was that it
did not keep well and was sure to spoil sooner or
later. So Jack's main business was to grow a field of
fine pumpkins each year, and always before his old head
Glinda of Oz |
