| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Looke to your wife, obserue her well with Cassio,
Weare your eyes, thus: not Iealious, nor Secure:
I would not haue your free, and Noble Nature,
Out of selfe-Bounty, be abus'd: Looke too't:
I know our Country disposition well:
In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes
They dare not shew their Husbands.
Their best Conscience,
Is not to leaue't vndone, but kept vnknowne
Oth. Dost thou say so?
Iago. She did deceiue her Father, marrying you,
Othello |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: Well, Jim an' me got a hint of our bein' Americans--that cowboys
generally had a name for loyalty to women. Then this amazin'
chap--you can't imagine how scornful--said for me an' Jim to watch him.
"Before I could catch my breath an' figger out what he meant by
'rush' an' 'rough house' he had knocked over a table an' crowded
some Greaser half off the map. One little funny man leaped up like
a wild monkey an' began to screech. An' in another second he was
in the air upside down. When he lit, he laid there. Then, quicker'n
I can tell you, the young man dove at Rojas. Like a mad steer on the
rampage he charged Rojas an' his men. The whole outfit went
down--smash! I figgered then what 'rush' meant. The young fellow
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: May, one of the town-physicians. The other two were strangers.
Wolfe came closer. He seized eagerly every chance that brought
him into contact with this mysterious class that shone down on
him perpetually with the glamour of another order of being.
What made the difference between them? That was the mystery of
his life. He had a vague notion that perhaps to-night he could
find it out. One of the strangers sat down on a pile of bricks,
and beckoned young Kirby to his side.
"This is hot, with a vengeance. A match, please?"--lighting his
cigar. "But the walk is worth the trouble. If it were not that
you must have heard it so often, Kirby, I would tell you that
Life in the Iron-Mills |
