| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: bade them. Now when they had sworn and done that oath, the
mighty prince Telemachus once more spake among them:
'Stranger, if thy heart and lordly spirit urge thee to rid
thee of this fellow, then fear not any other of the
Achaeans, for whoso strikes thee shall have to fight with
many. Thy host am I, and the princes consent with me,
Antinous and Eurymachus, men of wisdom both.'
So spake he and they all consented thereto. Then Odysseus
girt his rags about his loins, and let his thighs be seen,
goodly and great, and his broad shoulders and breast and
mighty arms were manifest. And Athene came nigh and made
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: passion. For this dame's father, we can make his grief the less
by advancing his son-in-law to such station as may enable him to
give an honourable support to his bride. Thou shalt not be
forgotten thyself, Tressilian--follow our court, and thou shalt
see that a true Troilus hath some claim on our grace. Think of
what that arch-knave Shakespeare says--a plague on him, his toys
come into my head when I should think of other matters. Stay,
how goes it?
'Cressid was yours, tied with the bonds of heaven ;
These bonds of heaven are slipt, dissolved, and loosed,
And with another knot five fingers tied,
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: tired burros, and turned them loose. Dead mesquite served for the
campfire. While the strange twilight deepened into weird night they
sat propped against stones, with eyes on the dying embers of the
fire, and soon they lay on the sand with the light of white stars
on their dark faces.
Each succeeding day and night Cameron felt himself more and more
drawn to this strange man. He found that after hours of burning
toil he had insensibly grown nearer to his comrade. He reflected
that after a few weeks in the desert he had always become a different man.
In civilization, in the rough mining camps, he had been a prey to unrest
and gloom. but once down on the great billowing sweep of this lonely
Desert Gold |
