| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: of more thinking men, who considered Sir Philip Forester as
having thrown himself out of the rank of men of honour, Captain
Falconer admitted him to the privilege of such, accepted a
challenge from him, and in the rencounter received a mortal
wound. Such are the ways of Heaven, mysterious in our eyes.
Lady Forester never recovered the shock of this dismal
intelligence.
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"And did this tragedy," said I, "take place exactly at the time
when the scene in the mirror was exhibited?"
"It is hard to be obliged to maim one's story," answered my aunt,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: C'est � Paris que je me coiffe
Casque noir de jemenfoutiste.
En Allemagne, philosophe
Surexcit� par Emporheben
Au grand air de Bergsteigleben;
J'erre toujours de-ci de-l�
A divers coups de tra la la
De Damas jusqu'� Omaha.
Je celebrai mon jour de f�te
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
V�tu d'une peau de girafe.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Let this be good, whether our angry Foe
Can give it, or will ever? How he can
Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.
Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire,
Belike through impotence or unaware,
To give his enemies their wish, and end
Them in his anger whom his anger saves
To punish endless? 'Wherefore cease we, then?'
Say they who counsel war; 'we are decreed,
Reserved, and destined to eternal woe;
Whatever doing, what can we suffer more,
Paradise Lost |
