| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: walked. There were but few people about in this breathing space of
a poor neighbourhood. Under certain conditions of life there is
precious little time left for mere breathing. But still a few here
and there were indulging in that luxury; yet few as they were
Captain Anthony, though the least exclusive of men, resented their
presence. Solitude had been his best friend. He wanted some place
where he could sit down and be alone. And in his need his thoughts
turned to the sea which had given him so much of that congenial
solitude. There, if always with his ship (but that was an integral
part of him) he could always be as solitary as he chose. Yes. Get
out to sea!
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: But one black gory downpour, thick as hail.
Such evils, issuing from the double source,
Have whelmed them both, confounding man and wife.
Till now the storied fortune of this house
Was fortunate indeed; but from this day
Woe, lamentation, ruin, death, disgrace,
All ills that can be named, all, all are theirs.
CHORUS
But hath he still no respite from his pain?
SECOND MESSENGER
He cries, "Unbar the doors and let all Thebes
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: the wise saying of her son in her heart. She ascended to
her upper chamber with the women her handmaids, and then
was bewailing Odysseus, her dear lord, till grey-eyed
Athene cast sweet sleep upon her eyelids.
Now the goodly swineherd had taken the curved bow, and was
bearing it, when the wooers all cried out upon him in the
halls. And thus some one of the haughty youths would speak:
'Whither now art thou bearing the curved bow, thou wretched
swineherd, crazed in thy wits? Lo, soon shall the swift
hounds of thine own breeding eat thee hard by thy swine,
alone and away from men, if Apollo will be gracious to us
The Odyssey |
