| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: The King offered no interruption to his speech, but he bent a
look heavy with anger upon the young man.
"My gracious Lord and King," said Myles, "I, the son of the
accused, do offer myself as his champion in this cause,
beseeching thee of thy grace leave to prove the truth of the
same, being a belted knight by thy grace and of thy creation and
the peer of any who weareth spurs." Thereupon, rising, he drew
his iron gauntlet from his girdle, and flung it clashing down
upon the floor, and with his heart swelling within him with anger
and indignation and pity of his blind father, he cried, in a loud
voice, "I do accuse thee, William of Alban, that thou liest
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: below them. Then they crossed the cutting on a bridge.
'That's the lane to the cottage!' said Connie.
Hilda glanced at it impatiently.
'It's a frightful pity we can't go straight off!' she said. We could
have been in Pall Mall by nine o'clock.'
'I'm sorry for your sake,' said Connie, from behind her goggles.
They were soon at Mansfield, that once-romantic, now utterly
disheartening colliery town. Hilda stopped at the hotel named in the
motor-car book, and took a room. The whole thing was utterly
uninteresting, and she was almost too angry to talk. However, Connie
HAD to tell her something of the man's history.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: CRITO: But you see, Socrates, that the opinion of the many must be
regarded, for what is now happening shows that they can do the greatest
evil to any one who has lost their good opinion.
SOCRATES: I only wish it were so, Crito; and that the many could do the
greatest evil; for then they would also be able to do the greatest good--
and what a fine thing this would be! But in reality they can do neither;
for they cannot make a man either wise or foolish; and whatever they do is
the result of chance.
CRITO: Well, I will not dispute with you; but please to tell me, Socrates,
whether you are not acting out of regard to me and your other friends: are
you not afraid that if you escape from prison we may get into trouble with
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