| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: HELENA.
Is it yourself?
WIDOW.
If you shall please so, pilgrim.
HELENA.
I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.
WIDOW.
You came, I think, from France?
HELENA.
I did so.
WIDOW.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: spoke piteously, saying, 'Sir, do not force me to go with you,
but let me stay here, for I know you will not bring one of them
back with you, nor even return alive yourself; let us rather see
if we cannot escape at any rate with the few that are left us,
for we may still save our lives.'
"'Stay where you are, then,' answered I, 'eating and drinking at
the ship, but I must go, for I am most urgently bound to do so.'
"With this I left the ship and went up inland. When I got
through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the
enchantress Circe, I met Mercury with his golden wand, disguised
as a young man in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: just brought it sae muckle farther on the way to me. He then
advanced and lifted the heavy fur pouch, which was quite full of
gold. "Mercy on us!" said Hobbie, whose heart fluttered between
glee at the revival of his hopes and prospects in life, and
suspicion of the purpose for which this assistance was afforded
him---"Mercy on us! it's an awfu' thing to touch what has been
sae lately in the claws of something no canny, I canna shake
mysell loose o' the belief that there has been some jookery-
paukery of Satan's in a' this; but I am determined to conduct
mysell like an honest man and a good Christian, come o't what
will."
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