| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: TALBOT.
And leave my followers here to fight and die;
My age was never tainted with such shame.
JOHN.
And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?
No more can I be sever'd from your side,
Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:
Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;
For live I will not, if my father die.
TALBOT.
Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: relation for us.
FRANK. You really mean that?
VIVIE. Yes. It's the only relation I care for, even if we could
afford any other. I mean that.
FRANK [raising his eyebrows like one on whom a new light has
dawned, and rising with quite an effusion of chivalrous
sentiment] My dear Viv: why didnt you say so before? I am ever
so sorry for persecuting you. I understand, of course.
VIVIE [puzzled] Understand what?
FRANK. Oh, I'm not a fool in the ordinary sense: only in the
Scriptural sense of doing all the things the wise man declared to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: in the boat, he bowed, he crouched himself, acting instantly his part--
the part of a desolate man, widowed, bereft; and so called up before
him in hosts people sympathising with him; staged for himself as he sat
in the boat, a little drama; which required of him decrepitude and
exhaustion and sorrow (he raised his hands and looked at the thinness
of them, to confirm his dream) and then there was given him in
abundance women's sympathy, and he imagined how they would soothe him
and sympathise with him, and so getting in his dream some reflection of
the exquisite pleasure women's sympathy was to him, he sighed and said
gently and mournfully,
But I beneath a rougher sea
To the Lighthouse |
