| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: REIGNIER.
Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?
SUFFOLK.
Fair Margaret knows
That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.
REIGNIER.
Upon thy princely warrant, I descend
To give thee answer of thy just demand.
[Exit from the walls.]
SUFFOLK.
And here I will expect thy coming.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: "How he has grown!" she cried. "What the three last years have
done for him! He used to write only the tragedies of passion; but
this is the tragedy of the soul, the shadow coexistent with the
soul. This is the tragedy of effort and failure, the thing Keats
called hell. This is my tragedy, as I lie here spent by the
racecourse, listening to the feet of the runners as they pass me.
Ah, God! The swift feet of the runners!"
She turned her face away and covered it with her straining
hands. Everett crossed over to her quickly and knelt beside her.
In all the days he had known her she had never before, beyond an
occasional ironical jest, given voice to the bitterness of her
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: ``I should in that case hold you,'' replied the
yeoman, ``a friend to the weaker party.''
``Such is the duty of a true knight at least,'' replied
the Black Champion; ``and I would not willingly
that there were reason to think otherwise of
me.''
``But for my purpose,'' said the yeoman, ``thou
shouldst be as well a good Englishman as a good
knight; for that, which I have to speak of, concerns,
indeed, the duty of every honest man, but
is more especially that of a true-born native of
Ivanhoe |
