| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: Narr' Havas withdrew.
But he bore himself haughtily towards the Hundred. He changed their
arrangements. He demanded privileges for his men, and placed them on
important posts; thus the Barbarians stared when they perceived
Numidians on the towers.
The surprise of the Carthaginians was greater still when three hundred
of their own people, who had been made prisoners during the Sicilian
war, arrived on board an old Punic trireme. Hamilcar, in fact, had
secretly sent back to the Quirites the crews of the Latin vessels,
taken before the defection of the Tyrian towns; and, to reciprocate
the courtesy, Rome was now sending him back her captives. She scorned
Salammbo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The whole cold ocean's healing indifference.
No ship was coming. When the darkness
Fell, she was there, and alone, still gazing.
An Evangelist's Wife
"Why am I not myself these many days,
You ask? And have you nothing more to ask?
I do you wrong? I do not hear your praise
To God for giving you me to share your task?
"Jealous -- of Her? Because her cheeks are pink,
And she has eyes? No, not if she had seven.
If you should only steal an hour to think,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: To giue it due content
Laer. Let this be so:
His meanes of death, his obscure buriall;
No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones,
No Noble rite, nor formall ostentation,
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from Heauen to Earth,
That I must call in question
King. So you shall:
And where th' offence is, let the great Axe fall.
I pray you go with me.
Exeunt.
Hamlet |
