| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: however; and I dared not rouse the family, and fill the place with
confusion; still less unfold the business to my master, absorbed as
he was in his present calamity, and having no heart to spare for a
second grief! I saw nothing for it but to hold my tongue, and
suffer matters to take their course; and Kenneth being arrived, I
went with a badly composed countenance to announce him. Catherine
lay in a troubled sleep: her husband had succeeded in soothing the
excess of frenzy; he now hung over her pillow, watching every shade
and every change of her painfully expressive features.
The doctor, on examining the case for himself, spoke hopefully to
him of its having a favourable termination, if we could only
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And he said, 'Did we not bring thee up amongst us as a child? and
thou didst dwell amongst us for years of thy life; and thou didst do
thy deed which thou hast done, and thou art of the ungrateful!'
Said he, 'I did commit this, and I was of those who erred.
'And I fled from you when I feared you, and my Lord granted me
judgment, and made me one of His messengers; and this is the favour
thou hast obliged me with, that thou hast enslaved the children of
Israel!'
Said Pharaoh, 'Who is the Lord of the worlds? Said he, 'The Lord
of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, if ye are
but sure.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Who mints his soul to laughter's coin
And wastes it with his lips--
Has grown too sad for sighs and seeks
To cheat himself with mirth;
We fools self-doomed to motley are
The weariest wights on earth!
But yet, for us whose brains and hearts
Strove aye in paths perverse,
Doomed still to know the better things
And still to do the worse,--
What else is there remains for us
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