| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: for by the counsel of Minerva an evil dream, the seed of Oeneus,
hovered that night over his head. Meanwhile Ulysses untied the
horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off,
striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip
from the chariot. Then he whistled as a sign to Diomed.
But Diomed stayed where he was, thinking what other daring deed
he might accomplish. He was doubting whether to take the chariot
in which the king's armour was lying, and draw it out by the
pole, or to lift the armour out and carry it off; or whether
again, he should not kill some more Thracians. While he was thus
hesitating Minerva came up to him and said, "Get back, Diomed, to
The Iliad |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Then away down the hill trotted
Lucie and Mrs. Tiggy-winkle with the
bundles of clothes!
All the way down the path little
animals came out of the fern to meet
them; the very first that they met
were Peter Rabbit and Benjamin
Bunny!
And she gave them their nice clean
clothes; and all the little animals and
birds were so very much obliged to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: fist in his daughter's face.
"I believe you are an idiot!" he yelled.
He looked round for the chair, picked it up and sat down stiffly.
His anger was dead within him, and he felt ashamed of his
outburst, yet relieved to think that now he had laid clear before
his daughter the inner meaning of his life. He thought so in
perfect good faith, deceived by the emotional estimate of his
motives, unable to see the crookedness of his ways, the unreality
of his aims, the futility of his regrets. And now his heart was
filled only with a great tenderness and love for his daughter.
He wanted to see her miserable, and to share with her his
Almayer's Folly |
