| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: How bright these visits seem as she looks forward to them on
her lonely bed! How unsatisfactory their realisation, when
the forgetful child, half wondering, checks with every word
and action the outpouring of her maternal love! How bitter
and restless the memories that they leave behind! And for
the rest, what else has she? - to watch them with eager eyes
as they go to school, to sit in church where she can see them
every Sunday, to be passed some day unnoticed in the street,
or deliberately cut because the great man or the great woman
are with friends before whom they are ashamed to recognise
the old woman that loved them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Ser. Ye say honestly, rest you merry
Rom. Stay fellow, I can read.
He reades the Letter.
Seigneur Martino, and his wife and daughter: County Anselme
and his beautious sisters: the Lady widdow of Vtruuio,
Seigneur Placentio, and his louely Neeces: Mercutio and
his brother Valentine: mine vncle Capulet his wife and daughters:
my faire Neece Rosaline, Liuia, Seigneur Valentio, & his
Cosen Tybalt: Lucio and the liuely Helena.
A faire assembly, whither should they come?
Ser. Vp
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: dogs, dead warriors, or demons last night, the implication
being that the things seen were objects external to himself.
As Mr. Spencer observes, "his rude language fails to state the
difference between seeing and dreaming that he saw, doing and
dreaming that he did. From this inadequacy of his language it
not only results that he cannot truly represent this
difference to others, but also that he cannot truly represent
it to himself. Hence in the absence of an alternative
interpretation, his belief, and that of those to whom he tells
his adventures, is that his OTHER SELF has been away and came
back when he awoke. And this belief, which we find among
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