| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: (Another name of yours for a bad temper)
She must have one at hand on whom to wreak it
(That's what you mean, whatever the turn you give it),
Sure of a kindred sympathy, and thereby
Effect a mutual calm? You know that wisdom,
Given in vain to make a food for those
Who are without it, will be seen at last,
And even at last only by those who gave it,
As one or more of the forgotten crumbs
That others leave? You know that men's applause
And women's envy savor so much of dust
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: aussi merveilleux. Je suis sur que meme Cesar ne possede pas
d'oiseaux aussi beaux. Eh bien! je vous donnerai cinquante de mes
paons. Ils vous suivront partout, et au milieu d'eux vous serez
comme la lune dans un grand nuage blanc . . . Je vous les donnerai
tous. Je n'en ai que cent, et il n'y a aucun roi du monde qui
possede des paons comme les miens, mais je vous les donnerai tous.
Seulement, il faut me delier de ma parole et ne pas me demander ce
que vous m'avez demande. [Il vide la coupe de vin.]
SALOME. Donnez-moi la tete d'Iokanaan.
HERODIAS. C'est bien dit, ma fille! Vous, vous etes ridicule avec
vos paons.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: lodge when they heard a fearful roaring and saw rushing upon them
an animal the like of which they had never seen before. It was
Buck, a live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a
frenzy to destroy. He sprang at the foremost man (it was the
chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent
jugular spouted a fountain of blood. He did not pause to worry
the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing
wide the throat of a second man. There was no withstanding him.
He plunged about in their very midst, tearing, rending,
destroying, in constant and terrific motion which defied the
arrows they discharged at him. In fact, so inconceivably rapid
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