| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: under the archway in pursuit of his lord.
"Would thy occupation were ended, or thy neck broken, damned
pander!" said Anthony Foster. "But I must follow his beck, for
his interest and mine are the same, and he can wind the proud
Earl to his will. Janet shall give me those pieces though; they
shall be laid out in some way for God's service, and I will keep
them separate in my strong chest, till I can fall upon a fitting
employment for them. No contagious vapour shall breathe on
Janet--she shall remain pure as a blessed spirit, were it but to
pray God for her father. I need her prayers, for I am at a hard
pass. Strange reports are abroad concerning my way of life. The
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: fused? Leopold knew that the minds of men were wont to
change most unaccountably.
"Butzow," he said suddenly to the lieutenant of horse,
"how many do you imagine know positively that he who
has ruled Lutha for the past two days and he who was
crowned in the cathedral this noon are not one and the
same?"
"Only a few besides those who are in this room, your
majesty," replied Butzow. "Peter and Coblich have known
it from the first, and then there is Kramer, the loyal old
shopkeeper of Tafelberg, who followed Coblich and Maenck
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: Agathe. "You do the things you like, while he is certainly not in his
right place."
"What did he leave it for?" demanded Joseph. "What can it matter to
him whether Louis the Eighteenth's bugs or Napoleon's cuckoos are on
the flag, if it is the flag of his country? France is France! For my
part, I'd paint for the devil. A soldier ought to fight, if he is a
soldier, for the love of his art. If he had stayed quietly in the
army, he would have been a general by this time."
"You are unjust to him," said Agathe, "your father, who adored the
Emperor, would have approved of his conduct. However, he has consented
to re-enter the army. God knows the grief it has caused your brother
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