| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: Waited without a suitor till he came.
Naught it availed to hear, that with Amyclas
Found her unmoved at sounding of his voice
He who struck terror into all the world;
Naught it availed being constant and undaunted,
So that, when Mary still remained below,
She mounted up with Christ upon the cross.
But that too darkly I may not proceed,
Francis and Poverty for these two lovers
Take thou henceforward in my speech diffuse.
Their concord and their joyous semblances,
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: found them thus. Men slept on the deck of the tug, aboard the pile-
driver. Two or three had even curled up in the crevices of the jam,
resting in the arms of the monster they had subdued.
XLII
When Newmark left, in the early stages of the jam, he gave scant
thought to the errand on which he had ostensibly departed. Whether
or nor Orde got a supply of piles was to him a matter of
indifference. His hope, or rather preference was that the jam
should go out; but he saw clearly what Orde, blinded by the swift
action of the struggle, was as yet unable to perceive. Even should
the riverman succeed in stopping the jam, the extraordinary expenses
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: frankness, for their foolish confidence, and the silly
trustfulness that made them so easy a prey!
NOM DE DIEU! What did the woman mean by telling me all this? To
meet me in such a way, to disarm one by such methods, was to take
an unfair advantage. It put a vile--ay, the vilest--aspect, on
the work I had to do.
Yet it was very odd! What could M. de Cocheforet mean by
returning so soon, if M. de Cocheforet was here? And, on the
other hand, if it was not his unexpected presence that had so
upset the house, what was the secret? Whom had Clon been
tracking? And what was the cause of Madame's anxiety? In a few
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