| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: COUNTESS.
Nor I your mother?
HELENA.
You are my mother, madam; would you were,--
So that my lord your son were not my brother,--
Indeed my mother!--or were you both our mothers,
I care no more for than I do for heaven,
So I were not his sister. Can't no other,
But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?
COUNTESS.
Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds,
A blight on wives in travail; and withal
Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague
Hath swooped upon our city emptying
The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm
Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears.
Therefore, O King, here at thy hearth we sit,
I and these children; not as deeming thee
A new divinity, but the first of men;
First in the common accidents of life,
And first in visitations of the Gods.
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: me to turn. I slept soundly and awoke late. When I sat up Stockton stood by
his saddled horse, and was giving orders to the men. He spoke sharply. He
made it clear that they were not to be lax in their vigilance. Then,
without a word to Dick or me, he rode down the gorge and disappeared behind
a corner of yellow wall.
Bill untied the rope that held Dick's arms, but left his feet bound. I was
freed entirely, and it felt so good to have the use of all my limbs once
more that I pranced round in a rather lively way. Either my antics annoyed
Herky-Jerky or he thought it a good opportunity to show his skill with a
lasso, for he shot the loop over me so hard that it stung my back.
"I'm all there as a roper!" he said, pulling the lasso tight round my
The Young Forester |
