| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: It isn't a joy to be sipped now and then
And promptly put back in a dark place again.
Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of
And one that the humblest may well make the
most of.
Get out and live it each hour of the day,
Wear it and use it as much as you may;
Don't keep it in niches and corners and grooves,
You'll find that in service its beauty improves.
STORY TELLING
Most every night when they're in bed,
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: in a cup, till most of them had at least one great stupid eye gazing at
the stage.
"Oo must come and sit among them, Sylvie," he said in despair, "I've
put these two side-by-side, with their noses the same way, ever so many
times, but they do squarrel so!"
So Sylvie took her place as 'Mistress of the Ceremonies,' and Bruno
vanished again behind the scenes, to dress for the first 'Bit.'
"Hamlet!" was suddenly proclaimed, in the clear sweet tones I knew so
well. The croaking all ceased in a moment, and I turned to the stage,
in some curiosity to see what Bruno's ideas were as to the behaviour of
Shakespeare's greatest Character.
Sylvie and Bruno |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: perched on his shoulder. When the bananas came they had their
breakfast together; both hungry, both eating greedily and
showering the skins round them recklessly, in the trusting
silence of perfect friendship. Ali went away, grumbling, to cook
some rice himself, for all the women about the house had
disappeared; he did not know where. Almayer did not seem to
care, and, after he finished eating, he sat on the table swinging
his legs and staring at the river as if lost in thought.
After some time he got up and went to the door of a room on the
right of the verandah. That was the office. The office of
Lingard and Co. He very seldom went in there. There was no
Almayer's Folly |
