| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: MESSENGER
My business was to tend the mountain flocks.
OEDIPUS
A vagrant shepherd journeying for hire?
MESSENGER
True, but thy savior in that hour, my son.
OEDIPUS
My savior? from what harm? what ailed me then?
MESSENGER
Those ankle joints are evidence enow.
OEDIPUS
Oedipus Trilogy |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: father paddy-whacking little Willie when little Willie has been a
bad boy. The chances are your porter will leap to his feet, crack
his heels together and depart with a whoop of joy, grinning from
ear to ear. Or he may draw himself up and salute you, military
fashion, again with a grin. In any case his "soul" is not
"scared" a little bit, and there is no sense in yourself feeling
about it as though it were.
At another slant the justice you will dispense to your men
differs from our own. Again this is because of the teaching long
tradition has made part of their mental make-up. Our own belief
is that it is better to let two guilty men go than to punish one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified
and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of
duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no
sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen
to whom nature, by the voice of the man she loves, gives the
first counsels of love, all the more ardent because they seem so
pure.
The more a girl believes in goodness, the more easily will she
give way, if not to her lover, at least to love, for being
without mistrust she is without force, and to win her love is a
triumph that can be gained by any young man of five-and-twenty.
Camille |
