| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: when, later on, she ventured to refer to it, he stopped her
on the threshold, as if with words prepared beforehand.
'There are some pains,' said he, 'too acute for consolation,
or I would bring them to my kind consoler. Let the memory of
that letter, if you please, be buried.' And then as she
continued to gaze at him, being, in spite of herself, pained
by his elaborate phrase, doubtfully sincere in word and
manner: 'Let it be enough,' he added haughtily, 'that if this
matter wring my heart, it doth not touch my conscience. I am
a man, I would have you to know, who suffers undeservedly.'
He had never spoken so directly: never with so convincing an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: Away, away! for he is coming hither.
[Exeunt.]
[Re-enter PETRUCHIO.]
PETRUCHIO.
Thus have I politicly begun my reign,
And 'tis my hope to end successfully.
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty.
And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg'd,
For then she never looks upon her lure.
Another way I have to man my haggard,
To make her come, and know her keeper's call,
The Taming of the Shrew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Sometimes his unerring instinct discovers secrets in high places,
secrets which the Police Department is bidden to hush up and leave
untouched. Muller is then taken off the case, and left idle for
a while if he persists in his opinion as to the true facts. And
at other times, Muller's own warm heart gets him into trouble. He
will track down his victim, driven by the power in his soul which
is stronger than all volition; but when he has this victim in the
net, he will sometimes discover him to be a much finer, better man
than the other individual, whose wrong at this particular criminal's
hand set in motion the machinery of justice. Several times that
has happened to Muller, and each time his heart got the better of
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