| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: XCVII
But when these fair adventurers entered were
Deep in a vale, Erminia stayed her haste,
To be recalled she had no cause to fear,
This foremost hazard had she trimly past;
But dangers new, tofore unseen, appear,
New perils she descried, new doubts she cast.
The way that her desire to quiet brought,
More difficult now seemed than erst she thought.
XCVIII
Armed to ride among her angry foes,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: Heracles.
And is Patrocles, he said, your brother?
Yes, I said, he is my half-brother, the son of my mother, but not of my
father.
Then he is and is not your brother.
Not by the same father, my good man, I said, for Chaeredemus was his
father, and mine was Sophroniscus.
And was Sophroniscus a father, and Chaeredemus also?
Yes, I said; the former was my father, and the latter his.
Then, he said, Chaeredemus is not a father.
He is not my father, I said.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: John, while her sparkling eyes rested upon me. But even as I talked I
grew aware that these eyes were not sparkling, were starry rather, and
distant, and that she was not hearing what I said; so I stopped abruptly,
and at the stopping she spoke, like a person waking up.
"Oh, yes! Certainly he can take care of himself. Why not?"
"Rather creditable, don't you think?"
"Creditable?"
"Considering his aunts and everything."
She became haughty on the instant. "Upon my word! And do you suppose the
women of South Carolina don't wish their men to be men? Why"--she
returned to mirth and that arch mockery which was her special charm--"we
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