| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: But long I will not be Jack out of office:
The King from Eltham I intend to steal,
And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II.
France. Before Orleans
[Sound a Flourish. Enter Charles, Alencon, and Reignier,
marching with Drum and Soldiers.]
CHARLES.
Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens
So in the earth, to this day is not known:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: boastful voice apparently jeering at a person called
Prendergast. It mouthed abuse thickly, choked; then
pronounced very distinctly the word "Murphy," and
chuckled. Glass tinkled tremulously. All these sounds
came from the lighted port. Mr. Van Wyk hesitated,
stooped; it was impossible to look through unless he
went down into the mud.
"Sterne," he said, half aloud.
The drunken voice within said gladly--
"Sterne--of course. Look at him blink. Look at
him! Sterne, Whalley, Massy. Massy, Whalley,
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I can appreciate a joke on myself as well as most people,
but--Minnie, Minnie, think of that guilty wretch of a Dicky
Carter shaking in the pantry!"
"I don't know what you are talking about," I said, but she only
winked and went to the door.
"Don't take it too much to heart," she advised. "Too much
loyalty is a vice, not a virtue. And another piece of advice,
Minnie--when I find Dicky Carter, stand from under; something
will fall."
They had charades during the rest hour that afternoon, the
overweights headed by the bishop, against the underweights headed
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