| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Together with the pitiful complaints
Of such as your oppression feeds upon,
Forsaken your pernicious faction,
And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'
O monstrous treachery! can this be so,
That in alliance, amity and oaths,
There should be found such false dissembling guile?
KING.
What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?
GLOUCESTER.
He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: Lingard had vanished from the light. They had gone to the rail
where d'Alcacer could not see them. Some pity mingled with his
vexation at Mr. Travers' snatchy wakefulness. There was something
weird about the man, he reflected. "Jorgenson," he began aloud.
"What's that?" snapped Mr. Travers.
"It's the name of that lanky old store-keeper who is always about
the decks."
"I haven't seen him. I don't see anybody. I don't know anybody. I
prefer not to notice."
"I was only going to say that he gave me a pack of cards; would
you like a game of piquet?"
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: read.
"'Is that the piece he's to read,' I asked, 'when Guy Walsingham
arrives?'
"'It's not for Guy Walsingham they're waiting now, it's for Dora
Forbes,' Lady Augusta said. 'She's coming, I believe, early to-
morrow. Meanwhile Mrs. Wimbush has found out about him, and is
actively wiring to him. She says he also must hear him.'
"'You bewilder me a little,' I replied; 'in the age we live in one
gets lost among the genders and the pronouns. The clear thing is
that Mrs. Wimbush doesn't guard such a treasure so jealously as she
might.'
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