| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
Something in my behalf.
DIANA.
Let death and honesty
Go with your impositions, I am yours
Upon your will to suffer.
HELENA.
Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: helplessly at the systematic, cold, gray-eyed obstinacy of the
Easterly weather, while short rations became the order of the day,
and the pinch of hunger under the breast-bone grew familiar to
every sailor in that held-up fleet. Every day added to our
numbers. In knots and groups and straggling parties we flung to
and fro before the closed gate. And meantime the outward-bound
ships passed, running through our humiliated ranks under all the
canvas they could show. It is my idea that the Easterly Wind helps
the ships away from home in the wicked hope that they shall all
come to an untimely end and be heard of no more. For six weeks did
the robber sheik hold the trade route of the earth, while our liege
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: in his -
"Senor," she said with decision, "You shall sleep in the
archbishop's room."
Neither of the witches objected. The dried-up one bent double was
propped on a stick. The puffy faced one had now a crutch.
Byrne got up, walked to the door, and turning the key in the
enormous lock put it coolly in his pocket. This was clearly the
only entrance, and he did not mean to be taken unawares by whatever
danger there might have been lurking outside.
When he turned from the door he saw the two witches "affiliated to
the Devil" and the Satanic girl looking at him in silence. He
Within the Tides |
