| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: On yonder mount Cithaeron, famed as mine,
My tomb predestined for me by my sire
And mother, while they lived, that I may die
Slain as they sought to slay me, when alive.
This much I know full surely, nor disease
Shall end my days, nor any common chance;
For I had ne'er been snatched from death, unless
I was predestined to some awful doom.
So be it. I reck not how Fate deals with me
But my unhappy children--for my sons
Be not concerned, O Creon, they are men,
Oedipus Trilogy |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: snapped. "The White Moll, the Little Saint of the East Side, that
lends a helping hand to the crooks to get 'em back on the straight
and narrow again! The White Moll-hell! You crooked little devil!"
Again she did not answer. Her mind was clear now, brutally clear,
brutally keen, brutally virile. What was there for her to say?
She was caught here at one o'clock in the morning after breaking
into the place, caught red-handed in the very act of taking the
money. What story could she tell that would clear her of that!
That she had taken it so that it wouldn't be stolen, and that she
was going to give it back in the morning? Was there anybody in the
world credulous enough to believe anything like that! Tell Gypsy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: She maintains she has noticed that most of her lies are told in
the two or three days preceding menstruation. (This was
certainly not true during the period we observed the girl.) The
parents are sure there has never been any particular mental
shock, and the mother has always felt that Janet was particularly
free from contamination by bad children. At times she seems to
realize her own bad behavior, and not long ago said she would
become a nun, for in the tranquil life of the convent her
tendency to lying would not be stimulated.
Further inquiry brought out the fact that it was true, as Janet
stated, that in her high school course she became nervous to the
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