| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.
The brackish water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
But though lean Hunger and green Thirst
Like asp with adder fight,
We have little care of prison fare,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: of the night was weeping itself out, Anna drew close under
his umbrella, and at the pressure of her arm against his he
recalled his walk up the Dover pier with Sophy Viner. The
memory gave him a startled vision of the inevitable
occasions of contact, confidence, familiarity, which his
future relationship to the girl would entail, and the
countless chances of betrayal that every one of them
involved.
"Do tell me just what you said," he heard Anna pleading; and
with sudden resolution he affirmed: "I quite understand your
mother-in-law's feeling as she does."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: green-black tail feathers unless he took to the swamp immediately.
Scarlett, watching the flying fingers, heard the laughter and
looked at them all with concealed bitterness and contempt.
"They haven't an idea what is really happening to me or to
themselves or to the South. They still think, in spite of
everything, that nothing really dreadful can happen to any of them
because they are who they are, O'Haras, Wilkeses, Hamiltons. Even
the darkies feel that way. Oh, they're all fools! They'll never
realize! They'll go right on thinking and living as they always
have, and nothing will change them. Melly can dress in rags and
pick cotton and even help me murder a man but it doesn't change
Gone With the Wind |
