| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: being mortally afraid of her, and when I ask what harm she can do
him that she hasn't already done he simply repeats: 'I'm afraid,
I'm afraid! Don't enquire too closely,' he said last night; 'only
believe that I feel a sort of terror. It's strange, when she's so
kind! At any rate, I'd as soon overturn that piece of priceless
Sevres as tell her I must go before my date.' It sounds dreadfully
weak, but he has some reason, and he pays for his imagination,
which puts him (I should hate it) in the place of others and makes
him feel, even against himself, their feelings, their appetites,
their motives. It's indeed inveterately against himself that he
makes his imagination act. What a pity he has such a lot of it!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum
Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros
autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem
Apostolorum. Sine his Ecclesia non vocatur; de
quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.
S. IGNATII AD TRALLIANOS.
And when this epistle is read among you, cause
that it be read also in the church of the
Laodiceans.
The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: had seen before; a woman in deep mourning, bowed in grief or in
prayer. He had seen her in other days - the first time of his
entrance there, and he now slightly wavered, looking at her again
till she seemed aware he had noticed her. She raised her head and
met his eyes: the partner of his long worship had come back. She
looked across at him an instant with a face wondering and scared;
he saw he had made her afraid. Then quickly rising she came
straight to him with both hands out.
"Then you COULD come? God sent you!" he murmured with a happy
smile.
"You're very ill - you shouldn't be here," she urged in anxious
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