| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.
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In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: He felt in his pocket for the papers. "These police-reports will soon stem the
torrent of my ideas, and effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the
time-worn banks of official duties"; he said to himself consolingly, while his
eye ran over the first page. "DAME TIGBRITH, tragedy in five acts." "What is
that? And yet it is undeniably my own handwriting. Have I written the tragedy?
Wonderful, very wonderful! --And this--what have I here? 'INTRIGUE ON THE
RAMPARTS; or THE DAY OF REPENTANCE: vaudeville with new songs to the most
favorite airs.' The deuce! Where did I get all this rubbish? Some one must
have slipped it slyly into my pocket for a joke. There is too a letter to me;
a crumpled letter and the seal broken."
Yes; it was not a very polite epistle from the manager of a theatre, in which
Fairy Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: fifty thousand there, but you are quite welcome to all there is - in
return for those papers.
The Adventurer was apparently obsessed with an inspection of his
finger nails; he began to polish those of one hand with the palm
of the other.
"Quite so, Danglar!" he said coolly. "I admit it - I am ashamed
of myself. I hate to think that I could be caught by you; but I
suppose I can find some self-extenuating circumstances. You seem
o have risen to an amazingly higher order of intelligence. In fact,
for you, Danglar, it is not at all bad!" He went on polishing his
nails. "Would you mind taking that thing out of my face? Even you
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