| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign'd;
And labouring in mo pleasures to bestow them,
Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:
'So many have, that never touch'd his hand,
Sweetly suppos'd them mistress of his heart.
My woeful self, that did in freedom stand,
And was my own fee-simple, (not in part,)
What with his heart in youth, and youth in art,
Threw my affections in his charmed power,
Reserv'd the stalk, and gave him all my flower.
'Yet did I not, as some my equals did,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: sailed proudly past his boat, wrinkled his curved nose
and hailed, 'You will sail that ship of yours under
water, if you don't look out, young fellow.' He was a
malicious old man--and may the deep sea where he sleeps
now rock him gently, rock him tenderly to the end of time!
"Before sunset a thick rain-squall passed over the two
boats, which were far astern, and that was the last I
saw of them for a time. Next day I sat steering my
cockle-shell--my first command--with nothing but water
and sky around me. I did sight in the afternoon the
upper sails of a ship far away, but said nothing, and my
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: camera clicked.
"You might have given me time to moisten the lips," said I.
"I doubt if it would have done any good."
"Thanks, very much. By the way, I suppose you're The Daily
Glass? How did you find me out?"
"Rumour travels apace, sir."
"And I had been congratulating myself on eluding the Press since
breakfast. Well, well! Only this morning- "
"Dry up!"
I apostrophized the sea.
"I don't want to have to report the chap," I said, "but if - "
The Brother of Daphne |
