| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: majesty above a million and a half of SPRUGS" (their greatest
gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) "and, upon the whole,
that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair
occasion of dismissing me."
I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excellent
lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account. The
treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife, from the malice
of some evil tongues, who informed him that her grace had taken a
violent affection for my person; and the court scandal ran for
some time, that she once came privately to my lodging. This I
solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood, without any
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: moments, never admitted that the devastation in his
body was mortal. With but a remnant of his for-
mer superb strength, and emaciated beyond recog-
nition, he attended a banquet on the night preced-
ing his departure, and on the following morning
stood up in his sledge and acknowledged the God-
speed of the population of Irkutsk assembled in the
square before the palace of the Governor. All his
life he had excited interest wherever he went, but
never to such a degree as on that last journey when
he made his desperate fight for life and happiness.
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: their discredited ally and rob the Church, with the cheerful
co-operation of Loki, as in France and Italy for instance.
The twin giants come back with their hostage, in whose presence
Godhead blooms again. The gold is ready for them; but now that
the moment has come for parting with Freia the gold
does not seem so tempting; and they are sorely loth to let her
go. Not unless there is gold enough to utterly hide her from
them--not until the heap has grown so that they can see nothing
but gold--until money has come between them and every human
feeling, will they part with her. There is not gold enough to
accomplish this: however cunningly Loki spreads it, the glint of
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