| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: as little trouble as possible: but they entirely neglected my
comfort, despised my requests, and slighted my directions. All
servants, I am convinced, would not have done so; but domestics in
general, being ignorant and little accustomed to reason and
reflection, are too easily corrupted by the carelessness and bad
example of those above them; and these, I think, were not of the
best order to begin with.
I sometimes felt myself degraded by the life I led, and ashamed of
submitting to so many indignities; and sometimes I thought myself a
fool for caring so much about them, and feared I must be sadly
wanting in Christian humility, or that charity which 'suffereth
Agnes Grey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: is that uncanny resemblance to the king--since he has shaved
his beard it is infinitely more remarkable. I thought you
might be he. He has been at Blentz and I knew that it was
quite possible that he had discovered treachery upon the
part of Prince Peter. In which case he might have escaped
in disguise. I really wasn't sure that you were not he until
you spoke."
Barney stooped and removed the bandoleer of cartridges
from the fallen trooper, as well as his revolver and carbine.
Then he took the girl's hand and together they turned into
the wood. Behind them came the sound of pursuit. They
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: 232
Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
'Within this limit is relief enough,
Sweet bottom-grass and high delightful plain, 236
Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain:
Then be my deer, since I am such a park; 239
No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark.'
At this Adonis smiles as in disdain,
That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple:
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