| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: "Very well," said Ravenswood, taking the lamp from his
domestic's unwilling hand, "I will show the stranger upstairs
myself."
"I canna think o' that, my lord; if ye wad but have five
minutes, or ten minutes, or, at maist, a quarter of an hour's
patience, and look at the fine moonlight prospect of the Bass and
North Berwick Law till I sort the horses, I would marshal ye up,
as reason is ye suld be marshalled, your lordship and your
honourable visitor. And I hae lockit up the siller candlesticks,
and the lamp is not fit----"
"It will do very well in the mean time," said Ravenswood, "and
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "Is this a time for luxurious feelings? However hot it is now, we
will both be cool by evening. We must start at
once."
"Without doubt, you are the master, Maskull.... May I not carry
Crimtyphon?"
Maskull looked at her strangely.
"I grudge no man his funeral."
She painfully hoisted the body on her narrow shoulders, and they
stepped out into the sunlight. The heat struck them like a blow on
the head. Maskull moved aside, to allow her to precede him, but no
compassion entered his heart. He brooded over the wrongs the woman
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided
For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;
For those that mingle reason with your passion
Must be content to think you old, and so-
But she knows what she does.
Lear. Is this well spoken?
Reg. I dare avouch it, sir. What, fifty followers?
Is it not well? What should you need of more?
Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger
Speak 'gainst so great a number? How in one house
Should many people, under two commands,
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