| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Nor cold by hoar-frost curdled, nor the prone
Dead weight of summer upon the parched crags,
So scathe it, as the flocks with venom-bite
Of their hard tooth, whose gnawing scars the stem.
For no offence but this to Bacchus bleeds
The goat at every altar, and old plays
Upon the stage find entrance; therefore too
The sons of Theseus through the country-side-
Hamlet and crossway- set the prize of wit,
And on the smooth sward over oiled skins
Dance in their tipsy frolic. Furthermore
Georgics |
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: sleeping-bag; nay, more, I had felt not a touch of cold, and
awakened with unusually lightsome and clear sensations.
With that, I shook myself, got once more into my boots and gaiters,
and, breaking up the rest of the bread for Modestine, strolled
about to see in what part of the world I had awakened. Ulysses,
left on Ithaca, and with a mind unsettled by the goddess, was not
more pleasantly astray. I have been after an adventure all my
life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and
heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random
woodside nook in Gevaudan - not knowing north from south, as
strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: that fire there are other friends--your friends, the Rajah Hassim
and the lady Immada, who send you their greetings and who expect
their eyes to rest on you before sunrise."
"That's a lie," remarked Jorgenson, perfunctorily, and fell into
thought, while the shadowy bearer of words preserved a
scandalized silence, though, of course, he had not expected to be
believed for a moment. But one could never tell what a white man
would believe. He had wanted to produce the impression that
Hassim and Immada were the honoured guests of Tengga. It occurred
to him suddenly that perhaps Jorgenson didn't know anything of
the capture. And he persisted.
The Rescue |
