| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: command, --
"Tilly's dragoons, wheel to the right!"
After this, he added, in an undertone, yet loud enough for
his words to be not altogether lost to those about him, --
"And now, ye butchers, do your work!"
A savage yell, in which all the keen hatred and ferocious
triumph rife in the precincts of the prison simultaneously
burst forth, and accompanied the departure of the dragoons,
as they were quietly filing off.
The Count tarried behind, facing to the last the infuriated
populace, which advanced at the same rate as the Count
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers
them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says,
"Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." And when
they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in
green, and dance about--whenever the wind blows--oh, that's
very pretty!' cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap
her hands. `And I do so WISH it was true! I'm sure the woods
look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.
`Kitty, can you play chess? Now, don't smile, my dear, I'm
asking it seriously. Because, when we were playing just now, you
watched just as if you understood it: and when I said "Check!"
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: order to make room for the stowage."
"Nay, nay," replied Foster, "touching scruples and modesty, you
sailed hence in ballast. But who is this gallant, honest Mike?
--is he a Corinthian--a cutter like thyself?"
"I prithee, know Master Tressilian, bully Foster," replied
Lambourne, presenting his friend in answer to his friend's
question, "know him and honour him, for he is a gentleman of many
admirable qualities; and though he traffics not in my line of
business, at least so far as I know, he has, nevertheless, a just
respect and admiration for artists of our class. He will come to
in time, as seldom fails; but as yet he is only a neophyte, only
Kenilworth |
