| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild;
Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill:
Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;
She, silly queen, with more than love's good will,
Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds:
'Once,' quoth she, 'did I see a fair sweet youth
Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar,
Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth!
See, in my thigh,' quoth she, 'here was the sore.
She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,
And blushing fled, and left her all alone.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: Kouski opened the door in tears,--that is, by Max's orders, he gave
signs of weeping.
"Oh! Monsieur, Madame has gone away, and taken Vedie with her!"
"Gone--a--way!" said the old man in a strangled voice.
The blow was so violent that Rouget sat down on the stairs, unable to
stand. A moment after, he rose, looked about the hall, into the
kitchen, went up to his own room, searched all the chambers, and
returned to the salon, where he threw himself into a chair, and burst
into tears.
"Where is she?" he sobbed. "Oh! where is she? where is Max?"
"I don't know," answered Kouski. "The captain went out without telling
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the horse's muzzle. Now the black reared and wheeled,
striking and biting, full upon the youth, but the active
figure swung with him--always just behind the giant
shoulder--and ever and ever he drew the great arched
neck farther and farther to the right.
As the animal plunged hither and thither in great
leaps he dragged the boy with him, but all his mighty
efforts were unavailing to loosen the grip upon mane
and withers. Suddenly he reared straight into the air
carrying the youth with him, then with a vicious lunge
he threw himself backward upon the ground.
The Outlaw of Torn |
