| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: It is the old, weary tale. We fought and struggled
and succeeded; meaning by success, that we lived and
did not die; more than that is not to be claimed. No
troubles came that we could not outlive, till this year
brought them; then came they all at once, as one
might say, and overwhelmed us. Years ago the lord
of the manor planted certain fruit trees on our farm;
in the best part of it, too -- a grievous wrong and
shame --"
"But it was his right," interrupted the king.
"None denieth that, indeed; an the law mean any-
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: you?" he asked Cyrus Harding.
"Castaways, like you," replied the engineer, whose emotion was deep. "We
have brought you here, among your fellow-men."
"My fellow-men!... I have none!'
"You are in the midst of friends."
"Friends!--for me! friends!" exclaimed the stranger, hiding his face in
his hands. "No--never--leave me! leave me!"
Then he rushed to the side of the plateau which overlooked the sea, and
remained there a long time motionless.
Harding rejoined his companions and related to them what had just
happened.
The Mysterious Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: their engagement was definitely broken off. Broken off! Their engagement!
People had been surprised enough that she had got engaged. The Science
Mistress would not believe it at first. But nobody had been as surprised
as she. She was thirty. Basil was twenty-five. It had been a miracle,
simply a miracle, to hear him say, as they walked home from church that
very dark night, "You know, somehow or other, I've got fond of you." And
he had taken hold of the end of her ostrich feather boa. "Passes away from
the Listening Ear."
"Repeat! Repeat!" said Miss Meadows. "More expression, girls! Once
more!"
"Fast! Ah, too Fast." The older girls were crimson; some of the younger
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