| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! 'Twas this flesh begot
Those pelican daughters.
Edg. Pillicock sat on Pillicock's Hill. 'Allow, 'allow, loo,
loo!
Fool. This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
Edg. Take heed o' th' foul fiend; obey thy parents: keep thy
word
justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: least, the lewd effeminate traitor!' And filling the glass
to the brim, he drank a king's damnation. Ah, if he had the
power of Louis, what a king were here!
The minutes followed each other into the past, and still he
persevered in this debilitating cycle of emotions, still fed
the fire of his excitement with driblets of Rhine wine: a boy
at odds with life, a boy with a spark of the heroic, which he
was now burning out and drowning down in futile reverie and
solitary excess.
From two rooms beyond, the sudden sound of a raised voice
attracted him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: seizing upon the unwilling hand, and shaking it with such
emphasis as almost to stagger the sturdy frame of the person whom
he addressed, "how fares it with you for many a long year? What!
have you altogether forgotten your friend, gossip, and
playfellow, Michael Lambourne?"
"Michael Lambourne!" said Foster, looking at him a moment; then
dropping his eyes, and with little ceremony extricating his hand
from the friendly grasp of the person by whom he was addressed,
"are you Michael Lambourne?"
"Ay; sure as you are Anthony Foster," replied Lambourne.
"'Tis well," answered his sullen host. "And what may Michael
Kenilworth |
