| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:
Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms,
And try if they can gain your liberty.
A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!
See, how the ugly witch doth bend her brows,
As if with Circe she would change my shape!
PUCELLE.
Chang'd to a worser shape thou canst not be.
YORK.
O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;
No shape but his can please your dainty eye.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: dazzling display.
Then she walked to and fro embarrassed by the time that was still
left.
Suddenly the crow of a cock resounded. She quickly pinned a long
yellow veil upon her hair, passed a scarf around her neck, thrust her
feet into blue leather boots, and said to Taanach:
"Go and see whether there is not a man with two horses beneath the
myrtles."
Taanach had scarcely re-entered when she was descending the galley
staircase.
"Mistress!" cried the nurse.
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: this that the mixed texture of his thought enables him to
reach such poignant and terrible effects, and to enchance
pity with ridicule, like a man cutting capers to a funeral
march. It is in this, also, that he rises out of himself
into the higher spheres of art. So, in the ballade by which
he is best known, he rings the changes on names that once
stood for beautiful and queenly women, and are now no more
than letters and a legend. "Where are the snows of yester
year?" runs the burden. And so, in another not so famous, he
passes in review the different degrees of bygone men, from
the holy Apostles and the golden Emperor of the East, down to
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