| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: wouldn't work, and I couldn't get the visor up; and I
could only shake my head, which was baking hot by
this time, and the fly -- well, you know how a fly acts
when he has got a certainty -- he only minded the
shaking enough to change from nose to lip, and lip to
ear, and buzz and buzz all around in there, and keep
on lighting and biting, in a way that a person, already
so distressed as I was, simply could not stand. So I
gave in, and got Alisande to unship the helmet and
relieve me of it. Then she emptied the conveniences
out of it and fetched it full of water, and I drank and
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: THE CHAPTER OF THE GINN
(LXXII. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Say, 'I have been inspired that there listened a company of the
ginn, and they said, "We have heard a marvellous Koran that guides
to the right direction; and we believe therein, and we join no one
with our Lord, for, verily, He-may the majesty of our Lord be
exalted!-has taken to Himself neither consort nor son.
And, verily, a fool among us spake against God wide of the mark!
'"And we thought that men and ginn would never speak a lie against
God.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: sauntered up and down the empty High Street, passing and
repassing the inn in his promenade. When the Scotchman sang
his voice had reached Henchard's ears through the heart-
shaped holes in the window-shutters, and had led him to
pause outside them a long while.
"To be sure, to be sure, how that fellow does draw me!" he
had said to himself. "I suppose 'tis because I'm so lonely.
I'd have given him a third share in the business to have
stayed!"
9.
When Elizabeth-Jane opened the hinged casement next morning
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
