| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: grow old Apollo comes with Diana and kills them with his
painless shafts. It contains two communities, and the whole
country is divided between these two. My father Ctesius son of
Ormenus, a man comparable to the gods, reigned over both.
"Now to this place there came some cunning traders from
Phoenicia (for the Phoenicians are great mariners) in a ship
which they had freighted with gewgaws of all kinds. There
happened to be a Phoenician woman in my father's house, very
tall and comely, and an excellent servant; these scoundrels got
hold of her one day when she was washing near their ship,
seduced her, and cajoled her in ways that no woman can resist,
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: EXETER.
For shame, come down; he made thee Duke of York.
YORK.
'T was my inheritance, as the earldom was.
EXETER.
Thy father was a traitor to the crown.
WARWICK.
Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown
In following this usurping Henry.
CLIFFORD.
Whom should he follow, but his natural king?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: He made it "sump-too-ous"--"robe of linden green chiffon
over cloth of gold! You know--tileul. It's elegant. . . .
What do you think?"
"Why not? What do you care for the opinion of city
rowdies, or a lot of farm boys? But you mustn't, you really
mustn't, let casual strangers like me have a chance to judge
you."
"Well---- You aren't a stranger, one way. Myrtle Cass
--Miss Cass, should say--she's spoken about you so often. I
wanted to call on you--and the doctor--but I didn't quite
have the nerve. One evening I walked past your house, but
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