| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: For a moment they stood paralyzed and then Suellen and Carreen
began to sob and clutch each other's fingers. Little Wade stood
rooted, trembling, unable to cry. What he had feared since the
night he left Atlanta had happened. The Yankees were coming to get
him.
"Yankees?" said Gerald vaguely. "But the Yankees have already been
here."
"Mother of God!" cried Scarlett, her eyes meeting Melanie's
frightened eyes. For a swift instant there went through her memory
again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes
that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: To morwe upon his majeste 1510
Stant in the temple wel besein.
How myhte a mannes resoun sein
That such a Stock mai helpe or grieve?
Bot thei that ben of such believe
And unto suche goddes calle,
It schal to hem riht so befalle,
And failen ate moste nede.
Bot if thee list to taken hiede
And of the ferste ymage wite,
Petornius therof hath write 1520
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: painful to the Flopsy Bunnies,
if they had happened to have
been inside it.
They could hear him drag
his chair on the flags, and
chuckle--
"One, two, three, four, five,
six leetle rabbits!" said Mr.
McGregor.
"EH? What's that? What
have they been spoiling
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