| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "Monsieur," you appear to be in great haste?"
"No one can be more so, monsieur."
"I am sorry for that," said D'Artagnan; "for as I am in great
haste likewise, I wish to beg you to render me a service."
"What?"
"To let me sail first."
"That's impossible," said the gentleman; "I have traveled sixty
leagues in forty hours, and by tomorrow at midday I must be in
London."
"I have performed that same distance in forty hours, and by ten
o'clock in the morning I must be in London."
The Three Musketeers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: mi.
Edg. How now, brother Edmund? What serious contemplation are
you
in?
Edm. I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other
day,
what should follow these eclipses.
Edg. Do you busy yourself with that?
Edm. I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily:
as
of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death,
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: It rounds us in; there at our backs are lodged
The fatal Crossbows, and the battle there
Is governed by the rough Chattillion.
Then thus it stands: the valley for our flight
The king binds in; the hills on either hand
Are proudly royalized by his sons;
And on the Hill behind stands certain death
In pay and service with Chattillion.
PRINCE EDWARD.
Death's name is much more mighty than his deeds;
Thy parcelling this power hath made it more.
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