| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths while we
Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,
And you, our no less loving son of Albany,
We have this hour a constant will to publish
Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife
May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,
Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule,
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: For the wheels were just as strong as the thills,
And the floor was just as strong as the sills,
And the panels just as strong as the floor,
And the whippletree neither less nor more,
And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore,
And spring and axle and hub ENCORE.
And yet, AS A WHOLE, it is past a doubt
In another hour it will be WORN OUT!
First of November, 'Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: not, for a while. Besides, she would have to go out a second time,
to manufacture her pill on a level space of sufficient extent.
When the work is done, some of them emancipate themselves, think
they will have a look at the country before retiring for good and
all. It is these whom we sometimes meet wandering aimlessly and
dragging their bag behind them. Sooner or later, however, the
vagrants return home; and the month of August is not over before a
straw rustled in any burrow will bring the mother up, with her
wallet slung behind her. I am able to procure as many as I want
and, with them, to indulge in certain experiments of the highest
interest.
The Life of the Spider |
