| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: I had forgotten; else I were not here.
OEDIPUS
What ails thee? Why this melancholy mood?
TEIRESIAS
Let me go home; prevent me not; 'twere best
That thou shouldst bear thy burden and I mine.
OEDIPUS
For shame! no true-born Theban patriot
Would thus withhold the word of prophecy.
TEIRESIAS
_Thy_ words, O king, are wide of the mark, and I
Oedipus Trilogy |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: come to visit us! Cheer up, old fellow! Do the honors of the place
a little better. If you look so glum, you'll make all these outside
folks think you envy their life above-ground."
"Never mind me, Jack," answered Harry. "You are jolly enough for two,
I'm sure; that's enough."
"I'll be hanged if I don't feel your melancholy creeping over me though!"
exclaimed Jack. "I declare my eyes
are getting quite dull, my lips are drawn together,
my laugh sticks in my throat; I'm forgetting all my songs.
Come, man, what's the matter with you?"
"You know well enough, Jack."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: In the course of an article purporting to explain that Monsieur So-
and-so is as honest a man as you will find in the kingdom, you are
informed that he is not better than a common thief. The sins of the
press? Pooh! mere trifles; the curtailers of its liberties are
monsters; and give him time enough, the constant reader is persuaded
to believe anything you please. Everything which does not suit the
newspaper will be unpatriotic, and the press will be infallible. One
religion will be played off against another, and the Charter against
the King. The press will hold up the magistracy to scorn for meting
out rigorous justice to the press, and applaud its action when it
serves the cause of party hatred. The most sensational fictions will
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