| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Here in the dark so many precious things
Of colour glorious, and effect so rare?
Here matter new to gaze the Devil met
Undazzled; far and wide his eye commands;
For sight no obstacle found here, nor shade,
But all sun-shine, as when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator, as they now
Shot upward still direct, whence no way round
Shadow from body opaque can fall; and the air,
No where so clear, sharpened his visual ray
To objects distant far, whereby he soon
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: 'How can you call me cruel? What have I been cruel to you in?'
'To come to me,' says he, 'in such a place as this, is it not to
insult me? I have not robbed you, at least not on the highway.'
I perceived by this that he knew nothing of the miserable
circumstances I was in, and thought that, having got some
intelligence of his being there, I had come to upbraid him
with his leaving me. But I had too much to say to him to be
affronted, and told him in few words, that I was far from
coming to insult him, but at best I came to condole mutually;
that he would be easily satisfied that I had no such view,
when I should tell him that my condition was worse than his,
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Kent was distinctly annoyed by the question. "Yes," he replied
shortly.
Ferguson ignored his curt tone. "Will you spare me a few minutes
of your time, Mr. Kent?" he asked persuasively. "I won't detain
you long."
"Certainly." Kent moved over to the chair in the window which he
had occupied before and pointed to another, equally as comfortable.
"What can I do for you?" he asked as Ferguson dropped back and
stretched himself in the soft depths of the big chair.
"Supply some information," answered the detective promptly. "Just
a minute," as Kent started to interrupt. "You don't recall me, but
The Red Seal |
