| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: And now, sir, will it please you walk with me?
FRISKIBALL.
Not yet I cannot, for the Lord Chancellor
Hath here commanded me to wait on him,
For what I know not: pray God tis for my good.
BANISTER.
never make doubt of that; I'll warrant you,
He is as kind a noble gentleman
As ever did possess the place he hath.
MISTRESS BANISTER.
Sir, my brother is his steward; if you please,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: distance off, away out there in the middle of the river,
but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft
at last I was so fagged I would a just laid down to
blow and gasp if I could afforded it. But I didn't.
As I sprung aboard I sung out:
"Out with you, Jim, and set her loose! Glory be
to goodness, we're shut of them!"
Jim lit out, and was a-coming for me with both arms
spread, he was so full of joy; but when I glimpsed
him in the lightning my heart shot up in my mouth
and I went overboard backwards; for I forgot he was
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: And to speak of Lord Lambeth's expression of intellectual repose
is not simply a civil way of saying that he looked stupid.
He was evidently not a young man of an irritable imagination;
he was not, as he would himself have said, tremendously clever;
but though there was a kind of appealing dullness in his eye,
he looked thoroughly reasonable and competent, and his appearance
proclaimed that to be a nobleman, an athlete, and an excellent
fellow was a sufficiently brilliant combination of qualities.
The young girl beside him, it may be attested without further delay,
thought him the handsomest young man she had ever seen;
and Bessie Alden's imagination, unlike that of her companion,
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