| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: enough to be a mountebank. If I were a little madder, I should
perhaps really believe myself Smilash instead of merely acting
him. Whether you ask me to forget myself for a moment, or to
remember myself for a moment, I reply that I am the son of my
father, and cannot. With my egotism, my charlatanry, my tongue,
and my habit of having my own way, I am fit for no calling but
that of saviour of mankind--just of the sort they like." After an
impressive pause he turned slowly and left the room.
"I wonder," he said, as he crossed the landing, "whether, by
judiciously losing my way, I can catch a glimpse of that girl who
is like a golden idol?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: The car shoots upward,
And the air, swirling and angry,
Howls like a hundred devils.
Past the maze of trim bronze doors,
Steadily we ascend.
I cling to you
Conscious of the chasm under us,
And a terrible whirring deafens my ears.
The flight is ended.
We pass thru a door leading onto the ledge--
RIVERS TO THE SEA
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children;
And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,
Have other some; why, 't is a happy thing
To be the father unto many sons.
Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.
GLOSTER.
The ghostly father now hath done his shrift.
CLARENCE.
When he was made a shriver, 't was for shift.
KING EDWARD.
Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.
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