| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Of great reuennew, and she hath no childe,
From Athens is her house remou'd seuen leagues,
And she respects me, as her onely sonne:
There gentle Hermia, may I marrie thee,
And to that place, the sharpe Athenian Law
Cannot pursue vs. If thou lou'st me, then
Steale forth thy Fathers house to morrow night:
And in the wood, a league without the towne,
(Where I did meete thee once with Helena.
To do obseruance for a morne of May)
There will I stay for thee
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise."
Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not
been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had
no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off
both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a
hopeless attempt at recovering them."
"Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to
eat it."
"To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his
excitement.
"Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Burns alone has been just to his promise; follow Burns, he knew
best, he knew whence he drew fire - from the poor, white-faced,
drunken, vicious boy that raved himself to death in the Edinburgh
madhouse. Surely there is more to be gleaned about Fergusson, and
surely it is high time the task was set about. I way tell you
(because your poet is not dead) something of how I feel: we are
three Robins who have touched the Scots lyre this last century.
Well, the one is the world's, he did it, he came off, he is for
ever; but I and the other - ah! what bonds we have - born in the
same city; both sickly, both pestered, one nearly to madness, one
to the madhouse, with a damnatory creed; both seeing the stars and
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