| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: In honor of my noble Lord of York:--
Dar'st thou maintain the former words thou spakest?
BASSET.
Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage
The envious barking of your saucy tongue
Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.
VERNON.
Sirrah, thy lord I honor as he is.
BASSET.
Why, what is he? as good a man as York.
VERNON.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: They took them off the scarecrow.
There had been rain
during the night; there was
water in the shoes, and the
coat was somewhat shrunk.
Benjamin tried on the tam-
o-shanter, but it was too big
for him.
THEN he suggested that
they should fill the pocket-
handkerchief with onions, as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: stars which revolve round and round each other, and from
a distance appear to be one. The absolute solitude in
which they lived intensified their reciprocal thoughts;
yet some might have said that it had the disadvantage
of consuming their mutual affections at a fearfully
prodigal rate. Yeobright did not fear for his own part;
but recollection of Eustacia's old speech about the
evanescence of love, now apparently forgotten by her,
sometimes caused him to ask himself a question; and he
recoiled at the thought that the quality of finiteness was
not foreign to Eden.
Return of the Native |
