| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: The lamp said,
"Four o’clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife.
Morning at the Window
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: -----<>-----
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm;
And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands;
Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf
In cluster; then a moulder'd church; and higher
A long street climbs to one tall-tower'd mill;
And high in heaven behind it a gray down
With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood,
By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes
Green in a cuplike hollow of the down.
Here on this beach a hundred years ago,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "He lies most falsely," said Isabella; "he carried me off by
violence from my father."
"Maybe he only wanted ye to think sae, hinny," replied the
robber; "but it's nae business o' mine, let it be as it may.--So
ye winna resign her back to me?"
"Back to you, fellow? Surely no," answered Earnscliff; "I will
protect Miss Vere, and escort her safely wherever she is pleased
to be conveyed."
"Ay, ay, maybe you and her hae settled that already," said Willie
of Westburnflat.
"And Grace?" interrupted Hobbie, shaking himself loose from the
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