| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails 270
Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
The Waste Land |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: serious thankfulness for my preservation and the preservation of my
family, and the constant confession of my sins, giving myself up to
God every day, and applying to Him with fasting, humiliation, and
meditation. Such intervals as I had I employed in reading books and
in writing down my memorandums of what occurred to me every day,
and out of which afterwards I took most of this work, as it relates to
my observations without doors. What I wrote of my private
meditations I reserve for private use, and desire it may not be made
public on any account whatever.
I also wrote other meditations upon divine subjects, such as
occurred to me at that time and were profitable to myself, but not fit
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: bedroom. He found Bauer stooping over the picture of the French
soldier. There was a hole in the left breast, where the bullet,
passing through, had buried itself in the back of the chair.
"Yes, it was all just as you said," began the chief of police,
holding out his hand to Muller. "But - why the golden bullet?"
"To-morrow, to-morrow," replied the detective, looking up at his
superior with a glance of pleading.
They left the house together and in less than an hour's time Muller
was again in the train rolling towards the capital.
He went to the goldsmith's shop as soon as he arrived. The
proprietor received him with eager interest and Muller handed him
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