| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.
KING.
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!
Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,
Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.
YORK.
Let this dissension first be tried by fight,
And then your highness shall command a peace.
SOMERSET.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: see I can't tell YOU.)
`You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice.
`Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called
"Jabberwocky"?'
`Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty. `I can explain all the
poems that were ever invented--and a good many that haven't
been invented just yet.'
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: I find a single case on record of a permanent race having been thus formed.
On the Breeds of the Domestic Pigeon. -- Believing that it is always best
to study some special group, I have, after deliberation, taken up domestic
pigeons. I have kept every breed which I could purchase or obtain, and
have been most kindly favoured with skins from several quarters of the
world, more especially by the Hon. W. Elliot from India, and by the Hon. C.
Murray from Persia. Many treatises in different languages have been
published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of
considerably antiquity. I have associated with several eminent fanciers,
and have been permitted to join two of the London Pigeon Clubs. The
diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Compare the English
On the Origin of Species |
