| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: and stretching out her legs and head and tail in the bright
sunshine; and the cubs jumped over her, and ran round her, and
nibbled her paws, and lugged her about by the tail; and she seemed
to enjoy it mightily. But one selfish little fellow stole away
from the rest to a dead crow close by, and dragged it off to hide
it, though it was nearly as big as he was. Whereat all his little
brothers set off after him in full cry, and saw Tom; and then all
ran back, and up jumped Mrs. Vixen, and caught one up in her mouth,
and the rest toddled after her, and into a dark crack in the rocks;
and there was an end of the show.
And next he had a fright; for, as he scrambled up a sandy brow -
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: That he hath put young Albanact to flight;
And least he should triumph at my decay,
This sword shall reave his master of his life,
That oft hath saved his master's doubtful life:
But, oh, my brethren, if you care for me,
Revenge my death upon his traitorous head.
Et vos queis domus est nigrantis regia ditis,
Qui regitis rigido stigios moderamine lucos:
Nox coeci regina poli, furialis Erinnis,
Diique deaeque omnes, Albanum tollite regem,
Tollite flumineis undis rigidaque palude.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: "And when things were desperate with me--we drank mules' urine and ate
the straps of our sandals; when I would fain have had the blades of
grass soldiers and made battalions with the rottenness of our dead,
you recalled the vessels that I had left!"
"We could not risk everything," replied Baat-Baal, who possessed gold
mines in Darytian Gaetulia.
"But what did you do here, at Carthage, in your houses, behind your
walls? There are Gauls on the Eridanus, who ought to have been roused,
Chanaanites at Cyrene who would have come, and while the Romans send
ambassadors to Ptolemaeus--"
"Now he is extolling the Romans to us!" Some one shouted out to him:
Salammbo |
