| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mr. Lindsey was a middle-aged man, with a weary and yet a happy
look in his wind-flushed and frost-pinched face, as if he had
been busy all the day long, and was glad to get back to his quiet
home. His eyes brightened at the sight of his wife and children,
although he could not help uttering a word or two of surprise, at
finding the whole family in the open air, on so bleak a day, and
after sunset too. He soon perceived the little white stranger
sporting to and fro in the garden, like a dancing snow-wreath,
and the flock of snow-birds fluttering about her head.
"Pray, what little girl may that be?" inquired this very sensible
man. "Surely her mother must be crazy to let her go out in such
The Snow Image |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak
For instant remedy. Be then desir'd
By her that else will take the thing she begs
A little to disquantity your train,
And the remainder that shall still depend
To be such men as may besort your age,
Which know themselves, and you.
Lear. Darkness and devils!
Saddle my horses! Call my train together!
Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee;
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: BEVIS.
Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.
HOLLAND.
True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation,
which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be labouring
men; and therefore should we be magistrates.
BEVIS.
Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a brave
mind than a hard hand.
HOLLAND.
I see them! I see them! There's Best's son, the
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