| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Her falt'ring tongue forbids to speak the rest.
When day declines, and feasts renew the night,
Still on his face she feeds her famish'd sight;
She longs again to hear the prince relate
His own adventures and the Trojan fate.
He tells it o'er and o'er; but still in vain,
For still she begs to hear it once again.
The hearer on the speaker's mouth depends,
And thus the tragic story never ends.
Then, when they part, when Phoebe's paler light
Withdraws, and falling stars to sleep invite,
Aeneid |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: there bubbled on the aforesaid bickering fire a huge pot, or
rather cauldron, steaming with beef and brewis; while before it
revolved two spits, turned each by one of the cooper's
apprentices, seated in the opposite corners of the chimney, the
one loaded with a quarter of mutton, while the other was graced
with a fat goose and a brace of wild ducks. The sight and scent
of such a land of plenty almost wholly overcame the drooping
spirits of Caleb. He turned, for a moment's space to reconnoitre
the "ben," or parlour end of the house, and there saw a sight
scarce less affecting to his feelings--a large round table,
covered for ten or twelve persons, decored (according to his own
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: of the house, but that she might be left alone to go on thinking, to go
on painting. She turned to her canvas. But impelled by some curiosity,
driven by the discomfort of the sympathy which she held undischarged,
she walked a pace or so to the end of the lawn to see whether, down
there on the beach, she could see that little company setting sail.
Down there among the little boats which floated, some with their sails
furled, some slowly, for it was very calm moving away, there was one
rather apart from the others. The sail was even now being hoisted.
She decided that there in that very distant and entirely silent little
boat Mr Ramsay was sitting with Cam and James. Now they had got the
sail up; now after a little flagging and silence, she watched the boat
To the Lighthouse |
