| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: up directly, feet and hands bound, to that wretch? Ah! Comte
de la Fere, you wish to perish by his hands! I, your son, as
you call me -- I will not let you!"
'Twas the first time D'Artagnan had ever refused a request
from Athos.
Aramis calmly drew his sword, which he had carried between
his teeth as he swam.
"If he lays his hand on the boat's edge I will cut it off,
regicide that he is."
"And I," said Porthos. "Wait."
"What are you going to do?" asked Aramis.
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: I heard, by the way, in a letter of counsel from a well-wisher, one
reason of my town's absurdity about the chair of Art: I fear it is
characteristic of her manners. It was because you did not call
upon the electors!
Will you remember me to Mrs. Hamerton and your son? - And believe
me, etc., etc.,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN
KINNAIRD COTTAGE, PITLOCHRY, [JULY 1881].
MY DEAR COLVIN, - I do believe I am better, mind and body; I am
tired just now, for I have just been up the burn with Wogg, daily
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: O let it not decline! If thou wouldst rule
This land, as now thou reignest, better sure
To rule a peopled than a desert realm.
Nor battlements nor galleys aught avail,
If men to man and guards to guard them tail.
OEDIPUS
Ah! my poor children, known, ah, known too well,
The quest that brings you hither and your need.
Ye sicken all, well wot I, yet my pain,
How great soever yours, outtops it all.
Your sorrow touches each man severally,
Oedipus Trilogy |
