| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: dashed by me so swiftly that I could only get a glimpse of a red
beard.
Lost in conjecture and full of misgivings, I ran to the house. In
the passage first of all I saw mother; she was pale and looking
with horror towards the door, from which came the sounds of men's
voices. The visitors had taken her by surprise in the very throes
of migraine.
"Who has come, mother?" I asked.
"Sister," I heard my uncle's voice, "will you send in something
to eat for the governor and me?"
"It is easy to say 'something to eat,' " whispered my mother,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,
Methought that Gloucester stumbled, and in falling
Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard
Into the tumbling billows of the main.
O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown,
What dreadful noise of waters in my ears,
What sights of ugly death within my eyes!
Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon,
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: of pains; and also, he appeared to me ostentatiously to exult in showing
how well he could say the same thing in two or three ways.
PHAEDRUS: Nonsense, Socrates; what you call repetition was the especial
merit of the speech; for he omitted no topic of which the subject rightly
allowed, and I do not think that any one could have spoken better or more
exhaustively.
SOCRATES: There I cannot go along with you. Ancient sages, men and women,
who have spoken and written of these things, would rise up in judgment
against me, if out of complaisance I assented to you.
PHAEDRUS: Who are they, and where did you hear anything better than this?
SOCRATES: I am sure that I must have heard; but at this moment I do not
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