| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: HASTINGS. (Aside.) So now all hopes of fortune are at an end, and we
must set off without it. (To him.) Well, Charles, I'll leave you to
your meditations on the pretty bar-maid, and, he! he! he! may you be as
successful for yourself, as you have been for me! [Exit.]
MARLOW. Thank ye, George: I ask no more. Ha! ha! ha!
Enter HARDCASTLE.
HARDCASTLE. I no longer know my own house. It's turned all
topsy-turvy. His servants have got drunk already. I'll bear it no
longer; and yet, from my respect for his father, I'll be calm. (To
him.) Mr. Marlow, your servant. I'm your very humble servant.
(Bowing low.)
She Stoops to Conquer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State
of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his
nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.
The revel now gradually broke up. The old farmers gathered
together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some
time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
Some of the damsels mounted on pillions behind their favorite
swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the
clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding
fainter and fainter, until they gradually died away, --and the
late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Then shall ye after that surely die; then shall ye on the day of
resurrection be raised.
And we have created above you seven roads; nor are we heedless of
the creation.
And we send down from the heaven water by measure, and we make it
rest in the earth; but, verily, we are able to take it away; and we
produce for you thereby gardens of palms and grapes wherein ye have
many fruits, and whence ye eat.
And a tree growing out of Mount Sinai which produces oil, and a
condiment for those who eat.
And, verily, ye have a lesson in the cattle; we give you to drink of
The Koran |
