| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: "However, as you think best. And so read a little more and come
again."
"When?" the idle youth asks in a hollow voice.
"When you like. Tomorrow if you like."
And in his good-natured eyes I read:
"I can come all right, but of course you will plough me again,
you beast!"
"Of course," I say, "you won't know more science for going in for
my examination another fifteen times, but it is training your
character, and you must be thankful for that."
Silence follows. I get up and wait for my visitor to go, but he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: restoring discipline, as in a carefully planned prison.
Gradually, many other observances were added besides vows. And
these fetters were laid upon many before the lawful age,
contrary to the Canons.
Many also entered into this kind of life through ignorance,
being unable to judge their own strength, though they were of
sufficient age. Being thus ensnared, they were compelled to
remain, even though some could have been freed by the kind
provision of the Canons. And this was more the case in
convents of women than of monks, although more consideration
should have been shown the weaker sex. This rigor displeased
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: of my friend Hans Andersen, he be no duck thought at all,
but a big swan thought that sail nobly on big wings,
when the time come for him to try them. See I read here
what Jonathan have written.
"That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again,
brought his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land,
who when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and again,
though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his
troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone
could ultimately triumph.
"What does this tell us? Not much? No! The Count's
Dracula |
