| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study fashions to adorn my body.
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.
But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave,
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. Exit
SCENE 3.
London. The palace
Richard III |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: editress of the Woman's Daily Newspaper, the only woman's daily
at that time in the world, who urged the importance of the
establishment and endowment of schools for the education of girls
throughout the empire.
XV
The Chinese Ladies of Rank
Though your husband may be wealthy,
You should never be profuse;
There should always be a limit
To the things you eat and use.
If your husband should be needy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: he secretly charged Rabbet with the misfortune of his life. Was it not
for her that the grand-pontiff had once advanced amid the tumult of
cymbals, and with a patera of boiling water taken from him his future
virility? And he followed with a melancholy gaze the men who were
disappearing with the priestesses in the depths of the turpentine
trees.
His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases, the
tongs, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, and all the robes of the
statues down to the bronze bodkin that served to curl the hair of an
old Tanith in the third aedicule near the emerald vine. At the same
hours he would raise the great hangings of the same swinging doors;
Salammbo |
