| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Another smother'd seems to pelt and swear;
And in their rage such signs of rage they bear,
As, but for loss of Nestor's golden words,
It seem'd they would debate with angry swords.
For much imaginary work was there;
Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind,
That for Achilles' image stood his spear,
Grip'd in an armed hand; himself, behind,
Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind:
A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head,
Stood for the whole to be imagined,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: leaping as high as her waist. She commanded, "Go away. Go home."
She even picked up from the ground a bit of a broken branch and
threw it at him. At this his delight knew no bounds; his rushes
became faster, his yapping louder; he seemed to be having the time
of his life. She was convinced that the moment she threw herself
down he would spring over after her as if it were part of the game.
She was vexed almost to tears. She was touched too. And when he
stood still at some distance as if suddenly rooted to the ground
wagging his tail slowly and watching her intensely with his shining
eyes another fear came to her. She imagined herself gone and the
creature sitting on the brink, its head thrown up to the sky and
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: villainous creatures, I never saw before, and hope never to see
again. I felt myself surrounded as by a pack of _fiends_, fresh
from _perdition_. They laughed, leered, and grinned at us;
saying, "Ah! boys, we've got you, havn't we? So you were about
to make your escape? Where were you going to?" After taunting
us, and peering at us, as long as they liked, they one by one
subjected us to an examination, with a view to ascertain our
value; feeling our arms and legs, and shaking us by the shoulders
to see if we were sound and healthy; impudently asking us, "how
we would like to have them for masters?" To such questions, we
were, very much to their annoyance, quite dumb, disdaining to
My Bondage and My Freedom |
