| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: They came down, and as Hobden opened the shutter
to see if the potatoes were done Tom Shoesmith said to
the children, 'Put a plenty salt on 'em. That'll show you
the sort o' man I be.'Again he winked, and again the Bee
Boy laughed and Una stared at Dan.
'I know what sort o' man you be,'old Hobden grunted,
groping for the potatoes round the fire.
'Do ye?' Tom went on behind his back. 'Some of us
can't abide Horseshoes, or Church Bells, or Running
Water; an', talkin' o' runnin' water' - he turned to
Hobden, who was backing out of the roundel - 'd'you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: the notorious financier whose enterprises had nothing to do with
magnanimity. He had his physician in his days of greatness. I even
seem to remember that the man was called at the trial on some small
point or other. I can imagine that de Barral went to him when he
saw, as he could hardly help seeing, the possibility of a "triumph
of envious rivals"--a heavy sentence.
I doubt if for love or even for money, but I think possibly, from
pity that man provided him with what Mr. Powell called "strong
stuff." From what Powell saw of the very act I am fairly certain it
must have been contained in a capsule and that he had it about him
on the last day of his trial, perhaps secured by a stitch in his
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: When I am all alone
Envy me then,
For I have better friends
Than women and men.
Faces
People that I meet and pass
In the city's broken roar,
Faces that I lose so soon
And have never found before,
Do you know how much you tell
In the meeting of our eyes,
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