| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Of eny on, if sche be wys;
For love schal noght bere his pris
Be reson, whanne it passeth on.
So have I sen ful many on,
That were of love wel at ese,
Whiche after felle in gret desese
Thurgh wast of love, that thei spente
In sondri places wher thei wente.
Riht so, mi Sone, I axe of thee
If thou with Prodegalite 7790
Hast hier and ther thi love wasted.
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: swept over Bloomsbury a squall so dark that he must rise and
light the gas; about him was the chill and the mean disorder of a
house out of commission--the floor bare, the sofa heaped with
books and accounts enveloped in a dirty table-cloth, the pens
rusted, the paper glazed with a thick film of dust; and yet these
were but adminicles of misery, and the true root of his
depression lay round him on the table in the shape of misbegotten
forgeries.
'It's one of the strangest things I ever heard of,' he
complained. 'It almost seems as if it was a talent that I didn't
possess.' He went once more minutely through his proofs. 'A clerk
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll
not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for."
"I think you are a very good tiger," said Dorothy, patting the huge
head of the beast.
"In that you are mistaken," was the reply. "I am a good beast,
perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of
tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless
living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted.
That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion."
"But the Lion is not really cowardly," said Dorothy. "I have seen him
act as bravely as can be."
Ozma of Oz |
