| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: husband's pleasure, who, if he sets him at liberty before the whole
fine be paid, obliges him to take an oath that he is going to
procure the rest, that he may be able to make full satisfaction.
Then the criminal orders meat and drink to be brought out, they eat
and drink together, he asks a formal pardon, which is not granted at
first; however, the husband forgives first one part of the debt, and
then another, till at length the whole is remitted.
A husband that doth not like his wife may easily find means to make
the marriage void, and, what is worse, may dismiss the second wife
with less difficulty than he took her, and return to the first; so
that marriages in this country are only for a term of years, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: The slips once planted, yet remains to cleave
The earth about their roots persistently,
And toss the cumbrous hoes, or task the soil
With burrowing plough-share, and ply up and down
Your labouring bullocks through the vineyard's midst,
Then too smooth reeds and shafts of whittled wand,
And ashen poles and sturdy forks to shape,
Whereby supported they may learn to mount,
Laugh at the gales, and through the elm-tops win
From story up to story.
Now while yet
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: him in the direction of the city. One thing was plain, among
so much that was obscure: it was plain her fears were
genuine. Still, as she went, she spied around as if for
dangers; and now she would shiver like a person in a chill,
and now clutch his arm in hers. To Challoner her terror was
at once repugnant and infectious; it gained and mastered,
while it still offended him; and he wailed in spirit and
longed for release.
'Madam,' he said at last, 'I am, of course, charmed to be of
use to any lady; but I confess I was bound in a direction
opposite to that you follow, and a word of explanation - '
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