| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: The strict forbiddance, how to violate
The sacred fruit forbidden! Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die:
How can I live without thee! how forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn!
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart: no, no!I feel
Paradise Lost |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: returned to you. They are as necessary to you as air is to life,
and it may be absurd, but I like you better showy than simple."
"Then you no longer love me."
"Foolish creature!"
"If you loved me, you would let me love you my own way; on the
contrary, you persist in only seeing in me a woman to whom luxury
is indispensable, and whom you think you are always obliged to
pay. You are ashamed to accept the proof of my love. In spite of
yourself, you think of leaving me some day, and you want to put
your disinterestedness beyond risk of suspicion. You are right,
my friend, but I had better hopes."
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: total loss of their last piece of plate had the effect of sobering
them just enough to enable them to stand over Gluck, beating him
very steadily for a quarter of an hour; at the expiration of which
period they dropped into a couple of chairs and requested to know
what he had got to say for himself. Gluck told them his story, of
which, of course, they did not believe a word. They beat him again,
till their arms were tired, and staggered to bed. In the morning,
however, the steadiness with which he adhered to his story obtained
him some degree of credence; the immediate consequence of which was
that the two brothers, after wrangling a long time on the knotty
question, which of them should try his fortune first, drew their
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