| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: "Well, yes; you can get up the vale below here with time.
The track is rough, but if you've got a light your horses
may pick along wi' care. Have ye brought your cart far up,
neighbour reddleman?"
"I've left it in the bottom, about half a mile back,
I stepped on in front to make sure of the way, as 'tis
night-time, and I han't been here for so long."
"Oh, well you can get up," said Fairway. "What a turn it
did give me when I saw him!" he added to the whole group,
the reddleman included. "Lord's sake, I thought,
whatever fiery mommet is this come to trouble us? No
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: power the
charioteer of blessings.
Hence sendest thou, O sapient Jatavedas, to him who serves
thee
treasures in succession.
4 Agni, whoever secretly attacks us, the neighbour, thou with
Mitra's
might! who harms us,
Burn him with thine own Steers for ever youthful, burning with
burning
heat, thou fiercest burner.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: till he suddenly sank exhausted, and lay for dead.
"As good as a stage play."
"The devil has played his part," says Jack; "and now by the rules
of all plays Vice should come on."
"And a very fair Vice it will be, I suspect; a right sweet
Iniquity, my Jack! Listen."
And from the interior of the hut rose a low sweet song, at which
all the simple Indians bowed their heads in reverence; and the
English were hushed in astonishment; for the voice was not shrill
or guttural, like that of an Indian, but round, clear, and rich,
like a European's; and as it swelled and rose louder and louder,
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