| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: shuddered at the weight. It seemed cruel to load
her so. . . .
Half an hour later, putting my foot on her deck
for the first time, I received the feeling of deep
physical satisfaction. Nothing could equal the
fullness of that moment, the ideal completeness of
that emotional experience which had come to me
without the preliminary toil and disenchantments
of an obscure career.
My rapid glance ran over her, enveloped, ap-
propriated the form concreting the abstract senti-
The Shadow Line |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: severe quaking.
And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said,
'God and His Apostle have only promised us deceitfully.' And when a
party of them said, 'O people of Yathreb; there is no place for you
(here), return then (to the city).' And a part of them asked leave
of the prophet (to return), saying, 'Verily, our houses are
defenceless but they were not defenceless, they only wished for
flight.
But had they been entered upon from its environs and then been asked
to show treason they would have done so; but they would only have
tarried there a little while.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: Their cool black noses on my lowest boughs,
And on my topmost branch the blackbird made
A little nest of grasses for his spouse,
And now and then a twittering wren would light
On a thin twig which hardly bare the weight of such delight.
I was the Attic shepherd's trysting place,
Beneath my shadow Amaryllis lay,
And round my trunk would laughing Daphnis chase
The timorous girl, till tired out with play
She felt his hot breath stir her tangled hair,
And turned, and looked, and fled no more from such delightful
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