| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: CADE.
We John Cade, so term'd of our supposed father,--
DICK.
[Aside.] Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.
CADE.
For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with the
spirit of putting down kings and princes,--Command silence.
DICK.
Silence!
CADE.
My father was a Mortimer,--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Of thilke unhapp which I now finde
Only betwen my love and me.
This Piramus, which hiere I se
Bledende, what hath he deserved?
For he youre heste hath kept and served, 1470
And was yong and I bothe also:
Helas, why do ye with ous so?
Ye sette oure herte bothe afyre,
And maden ous such thing desire
Wherof that we no skile cowthe;
Bot thus oure freisshe lusti yowthe
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: with a wide-eyed expression of fear and apprehension on
every face.
For a moment my heart stood still. I turned to look
at the woman by my side. Her thin lips were compressed
into a straight, hard line. She said a word to a nurse
standing near, and began to walk about, eying the
children sharply. She put out a hand to pat the head of
one red-haired mite in a soiled pinafore; but before her
hand could descend I saw the child dodge and the tiny
hand flew up to the head, as though in defense.
"They are afraid of her!" my sick heart told me.
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