| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Cap. Soft, take me with you, take me with you wife,
How, will she none? doth she not giue vs thanks?
Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,
Vnworthy as she is, that we haue wrought
So worthy a Gentleman, to be her Bridegroome
Iul. Not proud you haue,
But thankfull that you haue:
Proud can I neuer be of what I haue,
But thankfull euen for hate, that is meant Loue
Cap. How now?
How now? Chopt Logicke? what is this?
Romeo and Juliet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: without a blush from so thorough a gentleman as you seem to be. For my
part,--and it is long since I have allowed myself to indulge such full
confidences,--I must now ask you to allow me to leave you. I see a
melody beckoning to me, dancing and floating before me, bare and
quivering, like a girl entreating her lover for her clothes which he
has hidden. Good-night. I must go and dress my mistress. My wife I
leave with you."
He hurried away, as a man who blames himself for the loss of valuable
time; and Marianna, somewhat embarrassed, prepared to follow him.
Andrea dared not detain her.
Giardini came to the rescue.
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: since I was in the army, he thinks it will go through all right. If
only it doesn't bring HER down on my head!'
'Will she have to know?'
'Yes! she is served with a notice: so is the man she lives with, the
co-respondent.'
'Isn't it hateful, all the performances! I suppose I'd have to go
through it with Clifford.'
There was a silence.
'And of course,' he said, 'I have to live an exemplary life for the
next six or eight months. So if you go to Venice, there's temptation
removed for a week or two, at least.'
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
