| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: stood ready on the table, for the half-light began to grow dreary,
as it is apt to do when one has a short week ago buried the hope
of one's life. Next, I opened a cupboard in the wainscoting
and got a bottle of whisky and some tumblers and water. I always
like to do these things for myself: it is irritating to me to
have somebody continually at my elbow, as though I were an
eighteen-month-old baby. All this while Curtis and Good had
been silent, feeling, I suppose, that they had nothing to say
that could do me any good, and content to give me the comfort
of their presence and unspoken sympathy; for it was only their
second visit since the funeral. And it is, by the way, from
Allan Quatermain |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
As the white-furred one approached, the six grasped their
swords more firmly--the hooked instrument in the left hand, the
straight sword in the right, while above the left wrist the small
shield was held rigid upon a metal bracelet.
As the lone warrior came opposite them the six rushed out upon
him with fiendish yells that resembled nothing more closely than
the savage war cry of the Apaches of the South-west.
Instantly the attacked drew both his swords, and as the six fell
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: burning
IV. DEATH BY WATER
PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
The Waste Land |
