| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: "I didn't intend that you should. What of yourself, Isaac? And
what of the world which seems to have been standing still of late?"
"Standing still!" Le Chapelier laughed. "But where have you been,
then? Standing still!" He pointed across the square to a caf�
under the shadow of the gloomy prison. "Let us go and drink a
bavaroise. You are of all men the man we want, the man we have
been seeking everywhere, and - behold! - you drop from the skies
into my path."
They crossed the square and entered the caf�.
"So you think the world has been standing still! Dieu de Dieu! I
suppose you haven't heard of the royal order for the convocation of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: 'Twas never a bird, the voice I heard,
O mother, I hear it now!"
"Lie still, dear lamb, lie still;
The child is passed from harm,
'Tis the ache in your breast that broke your rest,
And the feel of an empty arm."
She put her mother aside,
"In Mary's name let be!
For the peace of my soul I must go," she said,
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: I have yielded:
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
That time and place, with this deceit so lawful,
May prove coherent. Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts, and songs compos'd
To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves; for he persists,
As if his life lay on 't.
HELENA.
Why, then, to-night
Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,
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