| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: Ellinor Brown, and how he ran away with her in September. You have
also seen them together (occasionally) at Lenox and Newport, since
their marriage. Are you honestly of the opinion that if Tom had not
married Ellinor, these two young lives would have been a total
wreck?
Adam Smith, in his book on THE MORAL SENTIMENTS, goes so far as to
say that "love is not interesting to the observer because it is AN
AFFECTION OF THE IMAGINATION, into which it is difficult for a third
party to enter." Something of the same kind occurred to me in
regard to Tom and Ellinor. Yet I would not have presumed to suggest
this thought to either of them. Nor would I have quoted in their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: master hand, so subtle the atmosphere, so perfect the technique;
yet nowhere was there a representation of a living animal,
either human or brute, by which I could guess at the likeness
of these other and perhaps extinct denizens of Mars.
While I was allowing my fancy to run riot in wild conjecture
on the possible explanation of the strange anomalies which
I had so far met with on Mars, Sola returned bearing both
food and drink. These she placed on the floor beside me,
and seating herself a short ways off regarded me intently.
The food consisted of about a pound of some solid substance of
the consistency of cheese and almost tasteless, while the liquid
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: doctor who was summoned pronounced that life had been extinct
for more than four hours. All papers, letters, and so forth
seemed in perfect order, and nothing was discovered which
pointed in the most remote way to any scandal either great or
small. Here the evidence ended; nothing more could be
discovered. Several persons had been present at the
dinner-party at which Lord Augustine had assisted, and to all
these he seemed in his usual genial spirits. The valet, indeed,
said he thought his master appeared a little excited when he
came home, but confessed that the alteration in his manner was
very slight, hardly noticeable, indeed. It seemed hopeless to
The Great God Pan |
