| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And that no names are dead names. When we write
Men's letters on proud marble or on sand,
We write them there forever.
The Chorus of Old Men in "Aegeus"
Ye gods that have a home beyond the world,
Ye that have eyes for all man's agony,
Ye that have seen this woe that we have seen, --
Look with a just regard,
And with an even grace,
Here on the shattered corpse of a shattered king,
Here on a suffering world where men grow old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: condition now to say No; I had no reason now to run any more
such hazards.
But while these thoughts ran round in my head, which was the
work but of a few moments, I observed my landlord took him
aside and whispered to him, though not very softly neither, for
so much I overheard: 'Sir, if you shall have occasion----' the
rest I could not hear, but it seems it was to this purpose: 'Sir,
if you shall have occasion for a minister, I have a friend a little
way off that will serve you, and be as private as you please.'
My gentleman answered loud enough for me to hear, 'Very
well, I believe I shall.'
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Edm. Most savage and unnatural!
Glou. Go to; say you nothing. There is division betwixt the
Dukes,
and a worse matter than that. I have received a letter this
night- 'tis dangerous to be spoken- I have lock'd the letter
in
my closet. These injuries the King now bears will be
revenged
home; there's part of a power already footed; we must
incline to
the King. I will seek him and privily relieve him. Go you
King Lear |
