| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: whispers, and remained quite unaware of him. He himself was too
astonished to make a sound for some time. The world was still,
except for the sibilation of the whispering heads bunched together
over the table.
"And Davidson, as I have quoted him to you before, didn't like it.
He didn't like it at all.
"The situation ended with a scream proceeding from the dark,
interior part of the room. 'O Davy! you've given me a turn.'
"Davidson made out beyond the table Anne's very pale face. She
laughed a little hysterically, out of the deep shadows between the
gloomy mat walls. 'Ha! ha! ha!'
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: CHORUS
But hath he still no respite from his pain?
SECOND MESSENGER
He cries, "Unbar the doors and let all Thebes
Behold the slayer of his sire, his mother's--"
That shameful word my lips may not repeat.
He vows to fly self-banished from the land,
Nor stay to bring upon his house the curse
Himself had uttered; but he has no strength
Nor one to guide him, and his torture's more
Than man can suffer, as yourselves will see.
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: condition, still doing the work of a house-maid, had such an effect
on her constitution, that she died in the wretched garret, where
her virtuous mistress had forced her to take refuge in the very
pangs of labour, though my father, after a slight reproof, was
allowed to remain in his place--allowed by the mother of six
children, who, scarcely permitting a footstep to be heard,
during her month's indulgence, felt no sympathy for the
poor wretch, denied every comfort required by her situation.
"The day my mother, died, the ninth after my birth, I was
consigned to the care of the cheapest nurse my father could find;
who suckled her own child at the same time, and lodged as many more
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