| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: Come and behold thy Rome, that is lamenting,
Widowed, alone, and day and night exclaims,
"My Caesar, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Come and behold how loving are the people;
And if for us no pity moveth thee,
Come and be made ashamed of thy renown!
And if it lawful be, O Jove Supreme!
Who upon earth for us wast crucified,
Are thy just eyes averted otherwhere?
Or preparation is 't, that, in the abyss
Of thine own counsel, for some good thou makest
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: window, then tossed the weapon back to its owner.
"You'll not shoot yourself by accident now," he explained, and
with that he had followed his companion into the night.
There came to the station agent the sound of galloping horses,
growing fainter, until a heavy silence seemed to fill the night.
He stole to the door and locked it, pulled down the window
blinds, and then reloaded his revolver with feverish haste. This
done, he sat down before his keys with the weapon close at hand
and frantically called for Tucson over and over again. No answer
came to him, nor from the other direction when he tried that. The
young bandit had told the truth. His companions had cut the wires
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: difference - a corner was missing.
Kent stared at the seal for a moment in doubt, then his fingers
sought his vest pocket and fumbled about for a minute. Taking out
Mrs. Brewster's check, he laid it on the desk alongside the envelope,
unfolded it, and picked out a piece of red sealing wax which had slid
inside the check. Kent placed the red wax on the broken section of
the seal - it fitted exactly, forming a perfect letter "B."
Kent sat in dumbfounded silence, regarding the red seal and the
envelope. The piece of wax broken off from the seal had caught on
his coat sleeve when he had been in the Venetian casket in the
library at the McIntyre house. It was proof positive that not only
The Red Seal |
