| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: bare when he was young--but at that time it was laid by,
and the seams of the straps were loosened,--then the twain
rushed on him and caught him, and dragged him in by the
hair, and cast him on the floor in sorrowful plight, and
bound him hand and foot in a bitter bond, tightly winding
each limb behind his back, even as the son of Laertes bade
them, the steadfast goodly Odysseus. And they made fast to
his body a twisted rope, and dragged him up the lofty
pillar till he came near the roof beams. Then didst thou
speak to him and gird at him, swineherd Eumaeus:
'Now in good truth, Melanthius, shalt thou watch all night,
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: through our own guilt. We had broken
a law, for we had not paid heed to the
words of our Teachers. The Teachers
had said to us all:
"Dare not choose in your minds the
work you would like to do when you leave
the Home of the Students. You shall do
that which the Council of Vocations shall
prescribe for you. For the Council of
Vocations knows in its great wisdom where
you are needed by your brother men, better
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: Salvini's finest moment throughout the play. From the first
he was admirably made up, and looked Macbeth to the full as
perfectly as ever he looked Othello. From the first moment
he steps upon the stage you can see this character is a
creation to the fullest meaning of the phrase; for the man
before you is a type you know well already. He arrives with
Banquo on the heath, fair and red-bearded, sparing of
gesture, full of pride and the sense of animal wellbeing, and
satisfied after the battle like a beast who has eaten his
fill. But in the fifth act there is a change. This is still
the big, burly, fleshly, handsome-looking Thane; here is
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