| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: How he outruns the winds, and with what care
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
The many musits through the which he goes
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes. 684
'Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,
To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
And sometime where earth-delving conies keep,
To stop the loud pursuers in their yell, 688
And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer;
Danger deviseth shifts, wit waits on fear:
'For there his smell with others being mingled, 691
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: --young like the love it was now serving. Her mother, her kind,
indulgent mother, lent herself to the caprices of the child's love,
and after the room was put in order, both went to sit with the unhappy
youth and keep him company. Does not Christian charity make
consolation a duty? The two women drew a goodly number of little
sophistries from their religion wherewith to justify their conduct.
Charles was made the object of the tenderest and most loving care. His
saddened heart felt the sweetness of the gentle friendship, the
exquisite sympathy which these two souls, crushed under perpetual
restraint, knew so well how to display when, for an instant, they were
left unfettered in the regions of suffering, their natural sphere.
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: cried exultantly, "You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the
window is barred!"
He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, and now he
saw that Mrs. Darling had laid her head on the box, and that two
tears were sitting on her eyes.
"She wants me to unbar the window," thought Peter, "but I
won't, not I!"
He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two
had taken their place.
"She's awfully fond of Wendy," he said to himself. He was
angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy.
Peter Pan |
