| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.
But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!
Now thou art come unto a feast of death,
A terrible and unavoided danger:
Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;
And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.
JOHN.
Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?
And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother,
Dishonor not her honorable name,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Tilney again continued in full force the next morning;
and till the usual moment of going to the pump-room, she
felt some alarm from the dread of a second prevention.
But nothing of that kind occurred, no visitors appeared
to delay them, and they all three set off in good time
for the pump-room, where the ordinary course of events
and conversation took place; Mr. Allen, after drinking
his glass of water, joined some gentlemen to talk over
the politics of the day and compare the accounts of
their newspapers; and the ladies walked about together,
noticing every new face, and almost every new bonnet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: the time on the sail. For if he forgot, then the sail puckered and
shivered, and the boat slackened, and Mr Ramsay would say sharply,
"Look out! Look out!" and old Macalister would turn slowly on his
seat. So they heard Mr Ramsay asking some question about the great
storm at Christmas. "She comes driving round the point," old
Macalister said, describing the great storm last Christmas, when ten
ships had been driven into the bay for shelter, and he had seen "one
there, one there, one there" (he pointed slowly round the bay. Mr
Ramsay followed him, turning his head). He had seen four men clinging
to the mast. Then she was gone. "And at last we shoved her off," he
went on (but in their anger and their silence they only caught a word
To the Lighthouse |
