| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: What! I must have a care of you.
MARINA.
My thanks, sweet madam.
[Exit Dionyza.]
Is this wind westerly that blows?
LEONINE.
South-west.
MARINA.
When I was born, the wind was north.
LEONINE.
Was 't so?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: my dear brothers, and had much property. 'And he went on to tell
them all about it in due order. 'I don't grieve for myself,' he
says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me. Only I am sorry for my old
wife and the children,' and the old man began to weep. Now it happened
that in the group was the very man who had killed the other
merchant. 'Where did it happen, Daddy?' he said. 'When, and in what
month?' He asked all about it and his heart began to ache. So he comes
up to the old man like this, and falls down at his feet! 'You are
perishing because of me, Daddy,' he says. 'It's quite true, lads, that
this man,' he says, 'is being tortured innocently and for nothing! I,'
he says, 'did that deed, and I put the knife under your head while you
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: glittered. The muscles along his brown cheeks set hard and
tense. He leaned closer to Duane, laid sinewy, pressing fingers
upon Duane's knee.
"Listen to this," he whispered, hoarsely. "If I place a pardon
in your hand--make you a free, honest citizen once more, clear
your name of infamy, make your mother, your sister proud of
you--will you swear yourself to a service, ANY service I demand
of you?"
Duane sat stock still, stunned.
Slowly, more persuasively, with show of earnest agitation,
Captain MacNelly reiterated his startling query.
The Lone Star Ranger |
