| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: There are so many ways to love
And each way has its own delight --
Then be content to come to me
Only as spray the beating sea
Drives inland through the night.
If Death Is Kind
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: there is a greater Power, namely that of a woman's love and
sacrifice."
"And a greater still," interrupted Bastin, "Which put those
ideas into her head."
"As for you, Humphrey," went on Oro, "I rejoice to think that
you at least have lost two things that man desires above all
other things--the woman you sought and the future kingship of the
world."
I stood up and faced him.
"The first I have gained, although how, you do not understand,
Oro," I answered. "And of the second, seeing that it would have
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: indeed. God bless you!'
With these words, the father, who had been arranging his cravat in
the glass, while he uttered them in a disconnected careless manner,
withdrew, humming a tune as he went. The son, who had appeared so
lost in thought as not to hear or understand them, remained quite
still and silent. After the lapse of half an hour or so, the elder
Chester, gaily dressed, went out. The younger still sat with his
head resting on his hands, in what appeared to be a kind of stupor.
Chapter 16
A series of pictures representing the streets of London in the
night, even at the comparatively recent date of this tale, would
Barnaby Rudge |
