| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: What is't that moues your Highnesse?
Macb. Which of you haue done this?
Lords. What, my good Lord?
Macb. Thou canst not say I did it: neuer shake
Thy goary lockes at me
Rosse. Gentlemen rise, his Highnesse is not well
Lady. Sit worthy Friends: my Lord is often thus,
And hath beene from his youth. Pray you keepe Seat,
The fit is momentary, vpon a thought
He will againe be well. If much you note him
You shall offend him, and extend his Passion,
Macbeth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: took a drop too much, and told us that he went on board and passed
the rifles one by one without the slightest compunction to a canoe
which came alongside that night, receiving ten dollars apiece for
them.
"Next day he was ill with shame and grief, but had not the courage
to confess his lapse to his benefactor. When the gunboat stopped
the brig he felt ready to die with the apprehension of the
consequences, and would have died happily, if he could have been
able to bring the rifles back by the sacrifice of his life. He
said nothing to Jasper, hoping that the brig would be released
presently. When it turned out otherwise and his captain was
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: after glance he cast on the flask of water which hung at his belt.
"Three drops are enough," at last thought he; "I may, at least,
cool my lips with it."
He opened the flask and was raising it to his lips, when his
eye fell on an object lying on the rock beside him; he thought it
moved. It was a small dog, apparently in the last agony of death
from thirst. Its tongue was out, its jaws dry, its limbs extended
lifelessly, and a swarm of black ants were crawling about its lips
and throat. Its eye moved to the bottle which Hans held in his
hand. He raised it, drank, spurned the animal with his foot, and
passed on. And he did not know how it was, but he thought that a
|
