| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: into.
CHARLES. Pray Unkle, is this another Plot of yours? for as I have
Life I don't understand it.
SURFACE. I believe Sir there is but the evidence of one Person
more necessary to make it extremely clear.
SIR PETER. And that Person--I imagine, is Mr. Snake--Rowley--you
were perfectly right to bring him with us--and pray let him appear.
ROWLEY. Walk in, Mr. Snake--
Enter SNAKE
I thought his Testimony might be wanted--however it happens unluckily
that He comes to confront Lady Sneerwell and not to support her--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy
impression I received from the objects around me. Alas! Why does
man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute;
it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were
confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free;
but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word
or scene that that word may convey to us.
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: caught glimpses of bright eyes gleaming from beneath masses
of tumbling hair, peering down upon him from above.
The ape-man gently tested the strength of the bonds that
held him, and while he could not be sure it seemed that they
were of insufficient strength to withstand the strain of his
mighty muscles when the time came to make a break for
freedom; but he did not dare to put them to the crucial test
until darkness had fallen, or he felt that no spying eyes were
upon him.
He had lain within the court for several hours before
the first rays of sunlight penetrated the vertical shaft;
The Return of Tarzan |
