| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: of her, what could you do to make up for what you had taken from
her? Nothing. You would have cut her off from the world in which
her fortune and her future were to be found; she would have given
you her best years, and she would be forgotten. Either you would
be an ordinary man, and, casting her past in her teeth, you would
leave her, telling her that you were only doing like her other
lovers, and you would abandon her to certain misery; or you would
be an honest man, and, feeling bound to keep her by you, you
would bring inevitable trouble upon yourself, for a liaison which
is excusable in a young man, is no longer excusable in a man of
middle age. It becomes an obstacle to every thing; it allows
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Dear traitor, too much loved, why?--why?--Yet see,
Before these kings we embrace you yet once more
With all forgiveness, all oblivion,
And trust, not love, you less.
And now, O sire,
Grant me your son, to nurse, to wait upon him,
Like mine own brother. For my debt to him,
This nightmare weight of gratitude, I know it;
Taunt me no more: yourself and yours shall have
Free adit; we will scatter all our maids
Till happier times each to her proper hearth:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: her people from Oogaboo. Also he told how Betsy
and Hank and Polychrome and the Rose Princess had
happened to join their party.
"And you intended to conquer Ruggedo, the Metal
Monarch and King of the Nomes?" asked the Citizen.
"Yes. That seemed the on-ly thing for us to do,"
was Tik-Tok's reply. "But he was too cle-ver for
us. When we got close to his cav-ern he made our
path lead to the Tube, and made the op-en-ing in-
vis-i-ble, so that we all fell in-to it be-fore we
knew it was there. It was an eas-y way to get rid
Tik-Tok of Oz |
