| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: to the people, whose great heart was thoroughly appalled yet
overflowing with tearful sympathy, as knowing that some deep
life-matter -- which, if full of sin, was
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full of anguish and repentance likewise -- was now to be laid
The Scarlet Letter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: an office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it; some day
I will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it;
all I say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has
removed the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this
venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being
a pimp; though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that
can move or compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is
free, nor is there herb or charm that can force it. All that certain
silly women and quacks do is to turn men mad with potions and poisons,
pretending that they have power to cause love, for, as I say, it is an
impossibility to compel the will."
Don Quixote |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: different man from the Leopold she had known of old. The
boldness of his escape from Blentz supposed a courage that
the king had never given the slightest indication of in the
past. Could it be that he was making a genuine effort to
become a man--to win her respect?
They were approaching Lustadt as the sun rose. A troop
of horse was just emerging from the north gate. As it neared
them they saw that the cavalrymen wore the uniforms of
the Royal Horse Guard. At their head rode a lieutenant. As
his eyes fell upon the face of the princess and her com-
panion, he brought his troopers to a halt, and, with in-
The Mad King |
