| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: her. She was attached to Clifford. He wanted a good deal of her life
and she gave it to him. But she wanted a good deal from the life of a
man, and this Clifford did not give her; could not. There were
occasional spasms of Michaelis. But, as she knew by foreboding, that
would come to an end. Mick COULDN'T keep anything up. It was part of
his very being that he must break off any connexion, and be loose,
isolated, absolutely lone dog again. It was his major necessity, even
though he always said: She turned me down!
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down
to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in
the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring,
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: twenty miles of poisonous and rocky desert. The city was
thirty miles away; there was but one road, which went no
further than my father's door; the rest were bridle-tracks
impassable in winter; and we thus dwelt in a solitude
inconceivable to the European. Our only neighbour was Dr.
Grierson. To my young eyes, after the hair-oiled, chin-
bearded elders of the city, and the ill-favoured and mentally
stunted women of their harems, there was something agreeable
in the correct manner, the fine bearing, the thin white hair
and beard, and the piercing looks of the old doctor. Yet,
though he was almost our only visitor, I never wholly
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