| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: fond of sporting on the sea-shore, she hastened thither as fast
as she could, and there beheld the wet faces of the poor sea
nymphs peeping over a wave. All this while, the good creatures
had been waiting on the bank of sponge, and once, every half
minute or so, had popped up their four heads above water, to
see if their playmate were yet coming back. When they saw
Mother Ceres, they sat down on the crest of the surf wave, and
let it toss them ashore at her feet.
"Where is Proserpina?" cried Ceres. "Where is my child? Tell
me, you naughty sea nymphs, have you enticed her under the
sea?"
Tanglewood Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: brought to an abrupt termination by a cablegram from my New York
lawyers, asking me to return to America at once. Some rascality
it
was, on the part of the agent of my estate, which had alarmed
them;
the cablegram was bare of detail. At any rate, I could not
afford
to disregard it, and arranged passage on a liner sailing from
Cherbourg the following day.
My hostess gave me a farewell dinner, which heightened my
regret at being forced to leave, and little Eugenie seemed really
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SALOME. Ah! le prophete. Celui dont le tetrarque a peur?
SECOND SOLDAT. Nous ne savons rien de cela, princesse. C'est le
prophete Iokanaan.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Voulez-vous que je commande votre litiere,
princesse? Il fait tres beau dans le jardin.
SALOME. Il dit des choses monstrueuses, e propos de ma mere, n'est-
ce pas?
SECOND SOLDAT. Nous ne comprenons jamais ce qu'il dit, princesse.
SALOME. Oui, il dit des choses monstrueuses d'elle.
UN ESCLAVE. Princesse, le tetrarque vous prie de retourner au
festin.
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