| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any
afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as
strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse
which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions
of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony
discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a
circle of ten miles' radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk,
and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never
become quite familiar to you.
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the
building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s
["ABC's" signifes endemic teashops, found in all parts of
London. The initials signify "Aerated Bread Company,
Limited."--Project Gutenberg Editor's replacement of
original footnote]
Le Directeur
Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise!
Tamisel Qui coule si pres du Spectateur.
Le directeur
Conservateur
Du Spectateur
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the way out into the hail and down the winding stair. They crossed
the lower corridor, mounted another staircase and entered a large,
handsomely furnished room, half studio, half library. The wall was
covered with pictures and sketches, several easels stood piled up
in the corner, and a broad table beside them held paint boxes,
colour tubes, brushes, all the paraphernalia of the painter, now
carefully ordered and covered for a term of idleness. Great
bookcases towered to the ceiling, and a huge flat top desk, a
costly piece of furniture, was covered with books and papers. It
was the room of a man of brains and breeding, a man of talent and
ability, possessing, furthermore, the means to indulge his tastes
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