| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: to second your Attempt, and he shall fall betweene
vs. Come, stand not amaz'd at it, but go along with
me: I will shew you such a necessitie in his death, that
you shall thinke your selfe bound to put it on him. It
is now high supper time: and the night growes to wast.
About it
Rod. I will heare further reason for this
Iago. And you shalbe satisfi'd.
Exeunt.
Scena Tertia.
Enter Othello, Lodouico, Desdemona, aemilia, and Atendants.
Othello |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: with chivalrous instincts, with a great need for affection and great
stability of feelings. Such men are easily moved. At the least
encouragement they go forward with the eagerness, with the
recklessness of starvation. This accounted for the suddenness of
the affair. No! With all her inexperience this girl could not have
found any great difficulty in her conquering enterprise. She must
have begun it. And yet there she was, patient, almost unmoved,
almost pitiful, waiting outside like a beggar, without a right to
anything but compassion, for a promised dole.
Every moment people were passing close by us, singly, in two and
threes; the inhabitants of that end of the town where life goes on
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: let our loving-kindness make bright this house of our habitation.
ANOTHER FOR EVENING
LORD, receive our supplications for this house, family, and
country. Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the
treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.
Look down upon ourselves and upon our absent dear ones. Help us
and them; prolong our days in peace and honour. Give us health,
food, bright weather, and light hearts. In what we meditate of
evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavours.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
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