| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which friendship lives.
How much it means that I say this to you--
Without these friendships--life, what cauchemar!"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 2 Let not man's guile annoy us, secret or by day: give not
us up a
prey to these calamities.
Sever not thou our friendship: think thereon for us. This,
with a
heart that longs for bliss, we seek from thee.
3 Bring hither with benignant mind the willing Cow teeming
with
plenteous milk, full, inexhaustible.
O thou invoked by many, day by day I urge thee with my word,
a charger
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: black cloth was sewn a golden funnel measuring six inches or so
across at its mouth, and the sunbeams passing through this funnel
fell in a bright patch, the size of an apple, upon the space of
pavement that was shaded by the cloth. As the sun moved in the
heavens, so did this ring of light creep across the shadow till at
length it climbed the stone of sacrifice and lay upon its edge.
Then at a sign from the head priest, his ministers laid hold of me
and plucked what were left of my fine clothes from me as cruel boys
pluck a living bird, till I stood naked except for the paint upon
my body and a cloth about my loins. Now I knew that my hour had
come, and strange to tell, for the first time this day courage
Montezuma's Daughter |
