| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: it not the worst match he could have made. Miss Vye's
family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father
was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses."
"It is no use, Thomasin; it is no use. Your intention
is good; but I will not trouble you to argue. I have gone
through the whole that can be said on either side times,
and many times. Clym and I have not parted in anger;
we have parted in a worse way. It is not a passionate
quarrel that would have broken my heart; it is the steady
opposition and persistence in going wrong that he has shown.
O Thomasin, he was so good as a little boy--so tender
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Well, it's that way, too, as he travels by,
That way with the other fellow.
OUR DUTY TO OUR FLAG
Less hate and greed
Is what we need
And more of service true;
More men to love
The flag above
And keep it first in view.
Less boast and brag
About the flag,
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the haunts of men to spend it? Should I stick my head
into London town it would doubtless stay there, held
by a hempen necklace.
"What quarrel have I with the King or the gentry?
They have quarrel enough with me it is true, but, nath-
less, I do not know why I should have hated them so
before I was old enough to know how rotten they really
are. So it seems to me that I am but the instrument
of an old man's spite, not even knowing the grievance
to the avenging of which my life has been dedicated
by another.
The Outlaw of Torn |
