| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: of her basque or pads on the back of her corsets, her thinness was
very obvious. Like her body, her face was too thin and too pale and
her silky brows, arched and delicate as a butterfly's feelers, stood
out too blackly against her colorless skin. In her small face, her
eyes were too large for beauty, the dark smudges under them making
them appear enormous, but the expression in them had not altered
since the days of her unworried girlhood. War and constant pain and
hard work had been powerless against their sweet tranquillity. They
were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might
blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.
How did she keep her eyes that way, thought Scarlett, looking at
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Enter Desdemona, Iago, Attendants.
Duke. I thinke this tale would win my Daughter too,
Good Brabantio, take vp this mangled matter at the best:
Men do their broken Weapons rather vse,
Then their bare hands
Bra. I pray you heare her speake?
If she confesse that she was halfe the wooer,
Destruction on my head, if my bad blame
Light on the man. Come hither gentle Mistris,
Do you perceiue in all this Noble Companie,
Where most you owe obedience?
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: This present summons?
Edg. Know my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.
Alb. Which is that adversary?
Edg. What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?
Edm. Himself. What say'st thou to him?
Edg. Draw thy sword,
That, if my speech offend a noble heart,
Thy arm may do thee justice. Here is mine.
King Lear |
