| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: his eyes, trying to find some clue. They were full of laughter but
there was something else, deep in them, which she had never seen
before, a gleam that defied analysis. He sat easily, carelessly
but she felt that he was watching her as alertly as a cat watches a
mouse hole. There was a sense of leashed power straining beneath
his calm that made her draw back, a little frightened.
He was actually asking her to marry him; he was committing the
incredible. Once she had planned how she would torment him should
he ever propose. Once she had thought that if he ever spoke those
words she would humble him and make him feel her power and take a
malicious pleasure in doing it. Now, he had spoken and the plans
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: When you unloosed my hair and kissed
The head that lay against your knees
In the leaf shadow's amethyst.
And still another shining place
We would remember -- how the dun
Wild mountain held us on its crest
One diamond morning white with sun.
But I will turn my eyes from you
As women turn to put away
The jewels they have worn at night
And cannot wear in sober day.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: helmet, but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was
untouched, for the spear was stayed by the visored helm made with
three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him. Hector
sprang back with a great bound under cover of the ranks; he fell
on his knees and propped himself with his brawny hand leaning on
the ground, for darkness had fallen on his eyes. The son of
Tydeus having thrown his spear dashed in among the foremost
fighters, to the place where he had seen it strike the ground;
meanwhile Hector recovered himself and springing back into his
chariot mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life.
But Diomed made at him with his spear and said, "Dog, you have
The Iliad |
