| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: "Will you give me the first and last?"
"I'll give you the first, and you can ask for the last then."
"Let's put it down; I know you'll forget it." Wilbur drew a couple
of cards from his case.
"Programmes are not good form any more," said Miss Herrick.
"Forgetting a dance is worse."
He made out the cards, writing on the one he kept for himself,
"First waltz--Jo."
"I must go back now," said Miss Herrick, getting up.
"In that case I shall run--I'm afraid of girls."
"It's a pity about you."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: all the town," she went on, with a scolding grimace. "He has silver in
his purse, a gable over the Seine, a stout halbert on one hand, an
honest wife on the other, a house as clean and smart as a new pin! And
he growls like a pilgrim smarting from Saint Anthony's fire!"
"Hey day!" exclaimed the sergeant of the watch, "do you fancy,
Jacqueline, that I have any wish to see my house razed down, my
halbert given to another, and my wife standing in the pillory?"
Jacqueline and the dainty journeywoman turned pale.
"Just tell me what you are driving at," said the washerwoman sharply,
"and make a clean breast of it. For some days, my man, I have observed
that you have some maggot twisting in your poor brain. Come up, then,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: draweth
forth the power turned hitherward with song,
The Princedom throned on holy grass, who findeth light, swift,
conquering in the' plants wherein he waxeth strong.
2 Shining to him who leaves heaven's regions undisturbed, which
to his
sheen who is beneath show fair in light,
Good guardian art thou, not to be deceived, Most Wise! Far
from
deceits thy name dwelleth in holy Law.
3 Truth waits upon oblation present and to come: naught checks
The Rig Veda |
