| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: SUFFOLK.
Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,
Because this is in traffic of a king.
[Aside] And yet, methinks, I could be well content
To be mine own attorney in this case.
I 'll over then to England with this news,
And make this marriage to be solemnized.
So, farewell, Reignier; set this diamond safe
In golden palaces, as it becomes.
REIGNIER.
I do embrace thee as I would embrace
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: 'Always push on to the front,' he would say. 'Keep
yourself well before your boss. Interfere whenever you
get a chance. Show him what you know. Worry him
into seeing you.' That was his advice. Now I know
no other boss than you here. You are the owner, and
no one else counts for THAT much in my eyes. See, Mr.
Massy? I want to get on. I make no secret of it that
I am one of the sort that means to get on. These are
the men to make use of, sir. You haven't arrived at
the top of the tree, sir, without finding that out--I
dare say."
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: Alberic. "That shot missed," he says: "no use abusing me for it.
And now let me tell you one thing. All things happen according to
their nature; and you can't alter them." And so he leaves him
Alberic, raging with the sense that his old enemy has been
laughing at him, and yet prophetically convinced that the last
word will not be with the god, hides himself as the day breaks,
and his brother approaches with Siegfried.
Mimmy makes a final attempt to frighten Siegfried by discoursing
of the dragon's terrible jaws, poisonous breath, corrosive
spittle, and deadly, stinging tail. Siegfried is not interested
in the tail: he wants to know whether the dragon has a heart,
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