| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: And far outstretched the rock-flung shadow lies.
Round wooded Silarus and the ilex-bowers
Of green Alburnus swarms a winged pest-
Its Roman name Asilus, by the Greeks
Termed Oestros- fierce it is, and harshly hums,
Driving whole herds in terror through the groves,
Till heaven is madded by their bellowing din,
And Tanager's dry bed and forest-banks.
With this same scourge did Juno wreak of old
The terrors of her wrath, a plague devised
Against the heifer sprung from Inachus.
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Well, speak up."
Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake
one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
"He was there and he asked most kindly after you, as did his
sisters, and said they hoped nothing would keep you from the
barbecue tomorrow. I'll warrant nothing will," he said shrewdly.
"And now, daughter, what's all this about you and Ashley?"
"There is nothing," she said shortly, tugging at his arm. "Let's
go in, Pa."
"So now 'tis you wanting to go in," he observed. "But here I'm
going to stand till I'm understanding you. Now that I think of
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: And strive to grapple with the battled marge,
And launch their bridges out, meanwhile below
With iron fronts the rams the walls down throw.
LXXII
Yet still Rinaldo unresolved went,
And far unworthy him this service thought,
If mongst the common sort his pains he spent;
Renown so got the prince esteemed naught:
His angry looks on every side he bent,
And where most harm, most danger was, he fought,
And where the wall high, strong and surest was,
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