| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: If best were as it was, or best without.
His qualities were beauteous as his form,
For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;
Yet if men mov'd him, was he such a storm
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,
When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be.
His rudeness so with his authoriz'd youth
Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.
'Well could he ride, and often men would say
That horse his mettle from his rider takes:
Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: pronounced, and waiting in miserable suspense for the time to come
when it would be his humiliating privilege to rise with Mary and
finish his plea, which he was intending to word thus: ". . . for
until now we have never done any wrong thing, but have gone our
humble way unreproached. We are very poor, we are old, and, have no
chick nor child to help us; we were sorely tempted, and we fell. It
was my purpose when I got up before to make confession and beg that
my name might not be read out in this public place, for it seemed to
us that we could not bear it; but I was prevented. It was just; it
was our place to suffer with the rest. It has been hard for us. It
is the first time we have ever heard our name fall from any one's
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: Then your ladder--"
"Why didn't you hail the ship?" I asked, a little louder.
He touched my shoulder lightly. Lazy footsteps came right over our heads
and stopped. The second mate had crossed from the other side of the poop
and might have been hanging over the rail for all we knew.
"He couldn't hear us talking--could he?" My double breathed
into my very ear, anxiously.
His anxiety was in answer, a sufficient answer, to the question
I had put to him. An answer containing all the difficulty
of that situation. I closed the porthole quietly, to make sure.
A louder word might have been overheard.
The Secret Sharer |
