| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Since every one, hath every one, one shade,
And you but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: LADY TEAZLE. Aye you are just what my Cousin Sophy said you
would be--
SIR PETER. Your Cousin Sophy--is a forward impertinent Gipsey--
LADY TEAZLE. Go you great Bear--how dare you abuse my Relations--
SIR PETER. Now may all the Plagues of marriage be doubled on me,
if ever I try to be Friends with you any more----
LADY TEAZLE. So much the Better.
SIR PETER. No--no Madam 'tis evident you never cared a pin for me--
I was a madman to marry you--
LADY TEAZLE. And I am sure I was a Fooll to marry you--an old
dangling Batchelor, who was single of [at] fifty--only because
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: words, it seemed to her she was born only then to a knowledge of
a new existence, that her life was complete only when near him,
and she abandoned herself to a feeling of dreamy happiness, while
with half- veiled face and in silence--as became a Malay
girl--she listened to Dain's words giving up to her the whole
treasure of love and passion his nature was capable of with all
the unrestrained enthusiasm of a man totally untrammelled by any
influence of civilised self-discipline.
And they used to pass many a delicious and fast fleeting hour
under the mango trees behind the friendly curtain of bushes till
Mrs. Almayer's shrill voice gave the signal of unwilling
Almayer's Folly |
