| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: In luscious gravy swimming.
To dine in swell cafe or club
But irritates and frets me;
Give me the plain and wholesome grub --
The grub the missus gets me.
Two kiddies smiling at the board,
The cook right at the table,
The four of us, a hungry horde,
To beat that none is able.
A big meat pie, with flaky crust!
'Tis then that joy besets me;
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: challenged all strangers to box with him, and those whom he
conquered he slew. But Polydeuces the boxer struck him a
harder blow than he ever felt before, and slew him; and the
Minuai went on up the Bosphorus, till they came to the city
of Phineus, the fierce Bithynian king; for Zetes and Calais
bade Jason land there, because they had a work to do.
And they went up from the shore toward the city, through
forests white with snow; and Phineus came out to meet them
with a lean and woful face, and said, 'Welcome, gallant
heroes, to the land of bitter blasts, the land of cold and
misery; yet I will feast you as best I can.' And he led them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his praise,
and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross,
by the end of another week. It had been a great disappointment
to Mr Musgrove to find that no earlier day could be fixed,
so impatient was he to shew his gratitude, by seeing Captain Wentworth
under his own roof, and welcoming him to all that was strongest
and best in his cellars. But a week must pass; only a week,
in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet;
and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.
Captain Wentworth made a very early return to Mr Musgrove's civility,
and she was all but calling there in the same half hour.
Persuasion |
