| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's
Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.
His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body
was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths.
"Run, Jimmie, run! Dey'll get yehs," screamed a retreating
Rum Alley child.
"Naw," responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, "dese micks can't
make me run."
Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devil's Row throats.
Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel
heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: came Elizabeth herself, then in the prime of womanhood, and in
the full glow of what in a Sovereign was called beauty, and who
would in the lowest rank of life have been truly judged a noble
figure, joined to a striking and commanding physiognomy. She
leant on the arm of Lord Hunsdon, whose relation to her by her
mother's side often procured him such distinguished marks of
Elizabeth's intimacy.
The young cavalier we have so often mentioned had probably never
yet approached so near the person of his Sovereign, and he
pressed forward as far as the line of warders permitted, in order
to avail himself of the present opportunity. His companion, on
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: When these dread men had carried him out from thence, they spake
of taking him back to earth. But he, that had lost his heart to
that scene of joyaunce and heartsease, exclaimed, "Reave me not,
reave me not, I pray you, of this unspeakable joy, but grant me
also to dwell in one corner of this mighty city." But they said,
"It is impossible for thee to be there now; but, with much toil
and sweat, thou shalt come hither, if thou constrain thyself."
Thus spake they; and again they crossed that mighty plain, and
bare him to regions of darkness and utter woe, where sorrow
matched the brightness which he had seen above. There was
darkness without a ray of light, and utter gloom, and the whole
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