| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: With my Lord's life still hot upon his hands,
Ye would have haled him out into the court,
And struck his head off with an axe.
GUIDO
O God!
DUCHESS
Speak, my Lord Justice.
LORD JUSTICE
Your Grace, it cannot be:
The laws of Padua are most certain here:
And by those laws the common murderer even
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: And iron-hooped wheels the water's back now bears,
To broad wains opened, as erewhile to ships;
Brass vessels oft asunder burst, and clothes
Stiffen upon the wearers; juicy wines
They cleave with axes; to one frozen mass
Whole pools are turned; and on their untrimmed beards
Stiff clings the jagged icicle. Meanwhile
All heaven no less is filled with falling snow;
The cattle perish: oxen's mighty frames
Stand island-like amid the frost, and stags
In huddling herds, by that strange weight benumbed,
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: monkeys should have summoned them, and yet, if not, it was
indeed a remarkable coincidence. His judgment told him that
the death of a single bird in this forest which teemed with
birds could scarce be of sufficient moment to warrant that
which followed. Yet even in the face of reason and past experi-
ence he found that the whole affair perplexed him.
He stood in the center of the trail awaiting the coming of
the lions and wondering what would be the method of their
attack or if they would indeed attack. Presently a maned lion
came into view along the trail below him. At sight of him the
lion halted. The beast was similar to those that had attacked
Tarzan the Untamed |
