| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: the lad before they heard a man's voice shouting on the wind
behind them, "Robbery! robbery!--Stop thief!" and similar
exclamations, which Wayland's conscience readily assured him must
arise out of the transaction to which he had been just accessory.
"I had better have gone barefoot all my life," he said; "it is
the Hue and Cry, and I am a lost man. Ah! Wayland, Wayland,
many a time thy father said horse-flesh would be the death of
thee. Were I once safe among the horse-coursers in Smithfield, or
Turnbull Street, they should have leave to hang me as high as St.
Paul's if I e'er meddled more with nobles, knights, or
gentlewomen."
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: interested in technical education, investigating the laws of metre,
drawing, acting, directing private theatricals, going a long way to
see an actor - a long way to see a picture; in the very bubble of
the tideway of contemporary interests. And all the while he was
busied about his father and mother, his wife, and in particular his
sons; anxiously watching, anxiously guiding these, and plunging
with his whole fund of youthfulness into their sports and
interests. And all the while he was himself maturing - not in
character or body, for these remained young - but in the stocked
mind, in the tolerant knowledge of life and man, in pious
acceptance of the universe. Here is a farrago for a chapter: here
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