| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: shall be so far forth friendly maintained, till by helping
Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband, we set his youngest free
for a husband, and then have to't afresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man
be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring. How say you,
Signior Gremio?
GREMIO.
I am agreed; and would I had given him the best horse in
Padua to begin his wooing, that would thoroughly woo her, wed
her, and bed her, and rid the house of her. Come on.
[Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO.]
TRANIO.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: more interesting."
"No, I don't want any of your imaginings. Just you stick
to bald facts. Begin at the beginning. Where were you
born and how old are you?"
"I was eleven last March," said Anne, resigning herself
to bald facts with a little sigh. "And I was born in
Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia. My father's name was Walter
Shirley, and he was a teacher in the Bolingbroke High
School. My mother's name was Bertha Shirley. Aren't
Walter and Bertha lovely names? I'm so glad my parents
had nice names. It would be a real disgrace to have a
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: than houses) like swine, having all in common, multiplied without
marriage into many hundreds. Their language is the dross of the
dregs of the vulgar Devonian; and the more learned a man is, the
worse he can understand them. During our civil wars no soldiers
were quartered upon them, for fear of being quartered amongst them.
Their wealth consisteth in other men's goods; they live by stealing
the sheep on the moors; and vain is it for any to search their
houses, being a work beneath the pains of any sheriff, and above
the power of any constable. Such is their fleetness, they will
outrun many horses; vivaciousness, they outlive most men; living in
an ignorance of luxury, the extinguisher of life. They hold
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