| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: was wrong. But the driver was addressing his team with much
language, and also with the lash.
Then a tall rider appeared close against the buried axles, and
took her out of the stage on his horse so suddenly that she
screamed. She felt splashes, saw a swimming flood, and found
herself lifted down upon the shore. The rider said something to
her about cheering up, and its being all right, but her wits were
stock-still, so she did not speak and thank him. After four days
of train and thirty hours of stage, she was having a little too
much of the unknown at once. Then the tall man gently withdrew
leaving her to become herself again. She limply regarded the
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Have I bewrayed thy Arcane secrecy?
Have I dishonoured thy marriage bed
With filthy crimes, or with lascivious lusts?
Nay, it is thou that hast dishonoured it:
Thy filthy minds, o'ercome with filthy lusts,
Yieldeth unto affections filthy darts.
Unkind, thou wrongst thy first and truest feer;
Unkind, thou wrongst thy best and dearest friend;
Unkind, thou scornst all skilfull Brutus' laws,
Forgetting father, uncle, and thy self.
ESTRILD.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: express to ourselves the processes of our own brain? May not his
Christian contemporaries have been nearer scientific truth, as well as
nearer the common sense and practical belief of mankind, in holding that
that which is spiritual is personal, and can only be seen or conceived
of as residing in persons; and that that which is personal is moral, and
has to do, not with abstractions of the intellect, but with right and
wrong, love and hate, and all which, in the common instincts of men,
involves a free will, a free judgment, a free responsibility and desert?
And that, therefore, if there were a Spirit, a Daemonic Element, an
universal Reason, a Logos, a Divine Element, closely connected with man,
that one Reason, that one Divine Element, must be a person also? At
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