| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: ASCANIO
[laughing] Then he could never have boxed your ears so often as my
father did mine.
GUIDO
[smiling] I am sure you never deserved it.
ASCANIO
Never; and that made it worse. I hadn't the consciousness of guilt
to buoy me up. What hour did you say he fixed?
GUIDO
Noon. [Clock in the Cathedral strikes.]
ASCANIO
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: doomed population of Orissa, like passengers in a ship without
provisions, were called upon to suffer the extremities of famine;
and in the course of the spring and summer of 1866, some seven
hundred thousand people perished.
January, 1869.
X. SPAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS.[31]
[31] History of the United Netherlands: from the Death of William
the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce, 1609. By John Lothrop
Motley, D. C. L. In four volumes. Vols. III. and IV. New York.
1868.
Tandem fit surculus arbor: the twig which Mr. Motley in his
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: burned-out moon. The mood that gripped Gale now added to its
somber portent an unshakable foreboding of calamity.
He wrestled with the spell as if it were a physical foe. Reason
and intelligence had their voices in his mind; but the moment was
not one wherein these things could wholly control. He felt life
strong withing his breast, yet there, a step away, was death,
yawning, glaring, smoky, red. It was a moment--an hour for a
savage, born, bred, developed in this scarred and blasted place
of jagged depths and red distances and silences never meant
to be broken. Since Gale was not a savage he fought that call
of the red gods which sent him back down the long ages toward
Desert Gold |
