| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: there was now no time for wonder. He called to the driver to stop
before reaching the avenue, and opening the door, jumped out of
the carriage as it was moving,and went into the avenue that led
up to the house. There was no one in the avenue; but looking
round to the right he caught sight of her. Her face was hidden by
a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in
walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and
the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran
all over him. With fresh force, he felt conscious of himself from
the springy motions of his legs to the movements of his lungs as
he breathed, and something set his lips twitching.
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: "Ah, no. Poor Angel! She got tired of
cooking and scouring the coppers in Madame
Anger's little kitchen, so she ran away with a
soldier, and then with another soldier.
Too bad! She still lives about the Quarter,
and, though there is always a soldat, she has
become a blanchisseuse de fin. She did my blouses
beautifully the last time I was there, and was
so delighted to see me again. I gave her all
my old clothes, even my old hats, though she
always wears her Breton headdress. Her hair
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: and is my master dead?
O you cockatrices and you bablatrices,
that in the woods dwell:
You briers and brambles, you cook's shops
and shambles,
come howl and yell.
With howling & screeking, with wailing and
weeping,
come you to lament,
O Colliers of Croyden, and rustics of Royden,
and fishers of Kent;
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