| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The long afternoon dragged its weary way toward darkness,
and still the imaginary legions charged and retreated.
The sun was about to set when Tario commenced to withdraw
his troops slowly toward the city.
His plan for cessation of hostilities through the night
evidently met with Jav's entire approval, for he caused
his forces to form themselves in orderly utans and march
just within the edge of the wood, where they were soon
busily engaged in preparing their evening meal, and
spreading down their sleeping silks and furs for the night.
Thuvia could scarce repress a smile as she noted the
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: But I shall doe thee mischiefe in the wood
Hel. I, in the Temple, in the Towne, and Field
You doe me mischiefe. Fye Demetrius,
Your wrongs doe set a scandall on my sexe:
We cannot fight for loue, as men may doe;
We should be woo'd, and were not made to wooe.
I follow thee, and make a heauen of hell,
To die vpon the hand I loue so well.
Enter.
Ob. Fare thee well Nymph, ere he do leaue this groue,
Thou shalt flie him, and he shall seeke thy loue.
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: I thought of my own Grishutka, and my heart went cold within me."
A minute passed in silence.
"Doesn't remember his mother, I suppose," said the old woman.
"How could he remember?"
And big tears began dropping from Sofya's eyes.
"He's curled himself up like a cat," she said, sobbing and
laughing with tenderness and sorrow. . . . "Poor motherless mite!
Kuzka started and opened his eyes. He saw before him an ugly,
wrinkled, tear-stained face, and beside it another, aged and
toothless, with a sharp chin and hooked nose, and high above them
the infinite sky with the flying clouds and the moon. He cried
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