| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Scene VI.
A farmhouse near Gloucester's Castle.
Enter Gloucester, Lear, Kent, Fool, and Edgar.
Glou. Here is better than the open air; take it thankfully. I
will
piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not
be
long from you.
Kent. All the power of his wits have given way to his
impatience.
The gods reward your kindness!
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: of immaculate command, and the last fifteen in the Sephora,
seemed to have laid him under some pitiless obligation.
"And you know," he went on, groping shame-facedly amongst his feelings,
"I did not engage that young fellow. His people had some
interest with my owners. I was in a way forced to take him on.
He looked very smart, very gentlemanly, and all that.
But do you know--I never liked him, somehow. I am a plain man.
You see, he wasn't exactly the sort for the chief mate of a ship
like the Sephora."
I had become so connected in thoughts and impressions with the secret
sharer of my cabin that I felt as if I, personally, were being
The Secret Sharer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: condition I am in, I would ask you to take me there at once in
your carriage; but as it is--"
"As it is, I must ask you, hey?" said Blanche, finishing the
sentence. "Of course. No mistake. Sans dire. Jones, junior,
this lady will join us. Don't look so scared, man. Are you
anxious about your cushions or your reputation?"
The youth simpered and disclaimed.
"Jump in, then, Miss Maxwell. Never mind the expense. It's
only the family carriage;--surname and arms of Jones. Lucky
there are no parents to the fore. Put my shawl over you, so."
"O Blanche!" said Hope, "what injustice--"
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