| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Why, for my king; tush, that 's a wooden thing!
MARGARET.
He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.
SUFFOLK.
Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,
And peace established between these realms.
But there remains a scruple in that too;
For though her father be the King of Naples,
Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
And our nobility will scorn the match.
MARGARET.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
SA2 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and
they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven
together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first
days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
SA2 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it
for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped
upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to
rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
SA2 21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: Monsieur de Fontaine's witticism at the Tuileries. The old Vendeen did
not let such a happy chance slip; he told his history with so much
vivacity that a king, who never forgot anything, might remember it at
a convenient season. The royal amateur of literature also observed the
elegant style given to some notes which the discreet gentleman had
been invited to recast. This little success stamped Monsieur de
Fontaine on the King's memory as one of the loyal servants of the
Crown.
At the second restoration the Count was one of those special envoys
who were sent throughout the departments charged with absolute
jurisdiction over the leaders of revolt; but he used his terrible
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