| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: fingers nervously toying with the hilt of his great-sword and
his cruel eyes bent in implacable hatred upon Tal Hajus.
It was Tars Tarkas, and I could read his thoughts as they
were an open book for the undisguised loathing upon his
face. He was thinking of that other woman who, forty years
ago, had stood before this beast, and could I have spoken
a word into his ear at that moment the reign of Tal Hajus
would have been over; but finally he also strode from the
room, not knowing that he left his own daughter at the
mercy of the creature he most loathed.
Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Glou. Sirrah naked fellow-
Edg. Poor Tom's acold. [Aside] I cannot daub it further.
Glou. Come hither, fellow.
Edg. [aside] And yet I must.- Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.
Glou. Know'st thou the way to Dover?
Edg. Both stile and gate, horseway and footpath. Poor Tom hath
been
scar'd out of his good wits. Bless thee, good man's son,
from
the foul fiend! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once:
of
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: recognized thus early in life, and am I, at my age, in such darkness and
ignorance as not to know that if a man with whom I have to live is
corrupted by me, I am very likely to be harmed by him; and yet I corrupt
him, and intentionally, too--so you say, although neither I nor any other
human being is ever likely to be convinced by you. But either I do not
corrupt them, or I corrupt them unintentionally; and on either view of the
case you lie. If my offence is unintentional, the law has no cognizance of
unintentional offences: you ought to have taken me privately, and warned
and admonished me; for if I had been better advised, I should have left off
doing what I only did unintentionally--no doubt I should; but you would
have nothing to say to me and refused to teach me. And now you bring me up
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