| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: She locks her lily fingers one in one. 228
'Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here
Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: 232
Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
'Within this limit is relief enough,
Sweet bottom-grass and high delightful plain, 236
Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: perceive you have an engagement. Luchesi--"
"I have no engagement;--come."
"My friend, no. It is not the engagement, but the severe cold
with which I perceive you are afflicted. The vaults are
insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre."
"Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is merely nothing.
Amontillado! You have been imposed upon. And as for Luchesi, he
cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado."
Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm.
Putting on a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaire
closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: House of Representatives then proceeds immediately to elect a
President, but with the condition that it must fix upon one of
the three candidates who have the highest numbers. *x
[Footnote v: As many as it sends members to Congress. The number
of electors at the election of 1833 was 288. (See "The National
Calendar," 1833.)]
[Footnote w: The electors of the same State assemble, but they
transmit to the central government the list of their individual
votes, and not the mere result of the vote of the majority.]
[Footnote x: In this case it is the majority of the States, and
not the majority of the members, which decides the question; so
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