| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: OFFICER.
Here is the head of the deceased Cromwell.
BEDFORD.
Pray thee, go hence, and bear his head away
Unto his body; inter them both in clay.
[Enter Sir Ralph Sadler.]
SADLER.
Ho now, my Lords: what, is Lord Cromwell dead?
BEDFORD.
Lord Cromwell's body now doth want a head.
SADLER.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: This must not be! We have sworn together that it must not.
Thus are we ministers of God's own wish. That the world,
and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters,
whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem
one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross
to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise.
And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause."
He paused and I said, "But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely?
Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger
does the village from which he has been hunted?"
"Aha!" he said, "your simile of the tiger good, for me,
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And he must win withal, to do that work,
Good fortitude, clean wisdom, and strong skill.
XXIII
To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn
Because the free gleam lingers; to defraud
The constant opportunity that lives
Unchallenged in all sorrow; to forget
For this large prodigality of gold
That larger generosity of thought, --
These are the fleshly clogs of human greed,
The fundamental blunders of mankind.
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