| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: scarlet flowers of the hibiscus. She showed the best bearing for a
bride conceivable, serious and still; and I thought shame to stand
up with her in that mean house and before that grinning negro. I
thought shame, I say; for the mountebank was dressed with a big
paper collar, the book he made believe to read from was an odd
volume of a novel, and the words of his service not fit to be set
down. My conscience smote me when we joined hands; and when she
got her certificate I was tempted to throw up the bargain and
confess. Here is the document. It was Case that wrote it,
signatures and all, in a leaf out of the ledger:-
This is to certify that Uma, daughter of Fa'avao of Falesa, Island
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence.
"Come now with me," he cried, "and I will soon prove that I am
right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a
statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in
two.
"That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing,
for it was a man who made the statue."
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,
chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: mortal. The train of little attentions, absolutely necessary to
soothe the young lady's mind, and aid her in composing her
spirits, necessarily threw the Master of Ravenswood into such an
itnercourse with her father as was calculated, for the moment at
least, to break down the barrier of feudal enemity which divided
them. To express himself churlishly, or even coldly, towards
anold man whose daughter (and SUCH a daughter) lay before them,
overpowered with natural terror--and all this under his own roof,
the thing was impossible; and by the time that Lucy, extending a
hand to each, was able to thank them for their kindness, the
Master felt that his sentiments of hostility towards the Lord
The Bride of Lammermoor |
