| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: PAROLLES.
Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in stratagem.
FIRST LORD. {Aside.]
'Twould not do.
PAROLLES.
Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
FIRST LORD. {Aside.]
Hardly serve.
PAROLLES.
Though I swore I leap'd from the window of the citadel,--
FIRST LORD. {Aside.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: Gordon rejoined.
"My dear Gordon," Longueville exclaimed, "I don't see what it
signifies to you that I should find Miss Vivian out!
When a man 's in love, what need he care what other people think
of the loved object?"
"It would certainly be a pity to care too much. But there is some excuse
for him in the loved object being, as you say, complicated."
"Nonsense! That 's no excuse. The loved object is always complicated."
Gordon walked on in silence a moment.
"Well, then, I don't care a button what you think!"
"Bravo! That 's the way a man should talk," cried Longueville.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: miles, seventeen furlongs, eight feet and four
inches--as nearly as I can judge from the sound
of their voices," replied the Hearer.
"Aha! Then it will be some time before they
arrive," said Ruggedo, "and when they get here
I shall be ready to receive them.
He rushed to his gong and pounded upon it so
fiercely that Kaliko came bounding into the cavern
with one shoe off and one shoe on, for he was just
dressing himself after a swim in the hot bubbling
lake of the Underground Kingdom.
Tik-Tok of Oz |
