| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 13 Ye dwellers with Vivasvan come, auspicious, as to Manu erst;
come to the Soma and our praise.
14 O circumambient Asvins, Dawn follows the brightness of your
way:
Approve with beams our solemn rites.
15 Drink ye of our libations, grant protection, O ye Asvins
Twain,
With aids which none may interrupt.
HYMN XLVlI. Asvins.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: was the life of Bouchet in a nutshell.
When I came back to the inn for a bit of breakfast, the landlady
was in the kitchen combing out her daughter's hair; and I made her
my compliments upon its beauty.
'Oh no,' said the mother; 'it is not so beautiful as it ought to
be. Look, it is too fine.'
Thus does a wise peasantry console itself under adverse physical
circumstances, and, by a startling democratic process, the defects
of the majority decide the type of beauty.
'And where,' said I, 'is monsieur?'
'The master of the house is upstairs,' she answered, 'making you a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: adays, touching up miserable photographs,
forcing up poor drawings, and spoiling good
ones. I'm absolutely sick of it all." Carl
frowned. "Alexandra, all the way out from
New York I've been planning how I could de-
ceive you and make you think me a very envi-
able fellow, and here I am telling you the
truth the first night. I waste a lot of time pre-
tending to people, and the joke of it is, I don't
think I ever deceive any one. There are too
many of my kind; people know us on sight."
O Pioneers! |
