| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: honour as might serve his turn, and was desirous of a little ease
and good living."
"And may I ask," said Lord Menteith, "why you, Captain, being, as
I suppose, in the situation you describe, retired from the
Spanish service also?"
"You are to consider, my lord, that your Spaniard," replied
Captain Dalgetty, "is a person altogether unparalleled in his own
conceit, where-through he maketh not fit account of such foreign
cavaliers of valour as are pleased to take service with him. And
a galling thing it is to every honourable soldado, to be put
aside, and postponed, and obliged to yield preference to every
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: may dash my head against the damp walls, groan for freedom, and dream
how I would rescue him if fetters did not hold me bound.--Now I am free,
and in freedom lies the anguish of impotence.--Conscious of my own
existence, yet unable to stir a limb in his behalf, alas! even this
insignificant portion of thy being, thy Clara, is, like thee, a captive, and,
separated from thee, consumes her expiring energies in the agonies of
death.--I hear a stealthy step,--a cough--Brackenburg,--'tis he!--Kind,
unhappy man, thy destiny remains ever the same; thy love opens to thee
the door at night, alas! to what a doleful meeting.
(Enter Brackenburg.) Thou com'st so pale, so terrified! Brackenburg!
What is it?
Egmont |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: a steel-pointed lash, and as the dogs came springing towards them
she laid about her right and left, till the skin flew and the
blood ran, and the dogs leaped away howling and yelping.
At the edge of the water was a great stone mill, and the queen
pointed towards it and bade the prince turn it. Strong as he was,
it was as much as he could do to work it; but grind it he did,
though the sweat ran down his face in streams. By-and-by a speck
appeared far away upon the water; and as the prince ground and
ground at the mill the speck grew larger and larger. It was
something upon the water, and it came nearer and nearer as
swiftly as the wind. At last it came close enough for him to see
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