| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: brushwood where lay the body of my mother. I drew near the first,
for the men were afraid, and so indeed was I, though why I should
fear her lying dead who living had loved me tenderly, I do not
know. Yet I know this, that when I came to the spot and saw two
eyes glowering at me and heard the crash of bushes as something
broke them, I could almost have fallen with fear, although I knew
well that it was but a fox or wandering hound haunting the place of
death.
Still I went on, calling the others to follow, and the end of it
was that we laid my mother's body upon a door which had been lifted
from its hinges, and bore her home for the last time. And to me
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Compels the lofty snows, up-reared white
Upon the lofty hills, to waste away;
Then, wax, if set beneath the heat of him,
Melts to a liquid. And the fire, likewise,
Will melt the copper and will fuse the gold,
But hides and flesh it shrivels up and shrinks.
The water hardens the iron just off the fire,
But hides and flesh (made hard by heat) it softens.
The oleaster-tree as much delights
The bearded she-goats, verily as though
'Twere nectar-steeped and shed ambrosia;
Of The Nature of Things |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: Now that he had reached a cooler moment he would have
preferred a less hasty marriage; but the card was laid,
and he determined to abide by the game. Whether Eustacia
was to add one other to the list of those who love too hotly
to love long and well, the forthcoming event was certainly
a ready way of proving.
6 - Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up
came from Yeobright's room to the ears of his mother downstairs.
Next morning he departed from the house and again proceeded
across the heath. A long day's march was before him,
Return of the Native |
