| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to
encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his
lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself
and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him.
While he was taken up with these vagaries, then, the time and the
hour- an unlucky one for him- arrived for the Asturian to come, who in
her smock, with bare feet and her hair gathered into a fustian coif,
with noiseless and cautious steps entered the chamber where the
three were quartered, in quest of the carrier; but scarcely had she
gained the door when Don Quixote perceived her, and sitting up in
his bed in spite of his plasters and the pain of his ribs, he
Don Quixote |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: "Control yourself, my daughter. You cannot
bring this man into the true church. His character
is long since formed and cast--it is iron. Even love
will not melt it. Were he younger--"
"I should hate him. All young men are insuffer-
able to me--always have been. I have found my
mate, and have him I will if I have to hide in the
hold of his ship. Ah, padre mio, I know not what
I say. But you will help me. Only you can. My
father thinks you as wise as a saint. And there
are other things--my head turns round--I can
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: is under the cover offered by a friendly wood and is safe from
detection. The rapidity with which thousands of men are able
to disappear when the word "Airman" is passed round is
astonishing. They vanish as completely and suddenly as if
swallowed by the earth or dissolved into thin air. They conceal
themselves under bushes,in ditches, lie prone under hedgerows,
dart into houses and outbuildings--in short, take every cover
which is available, no matter how slender it may seem, with
baffling alacrity. The attenuated column, however, is kept
moving along the highway for the express purpose of deceiving the
airman.
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