| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: first are somewhere between the creed and the sermon, and we need
not worry about the others."
"You treat me like a child," she said almost pettishly. "Don't try
so hard to be cheerful. It - it is almost ghastly."
After that I subsided like a pricked balloon, and the remainder of
the ride was made in silence. The information that she would go to
friends in the city was a shock: it meant an earlier separation
than I had planned for. But my arm was beginning again. In putting
her into a cab I struck it and gritted my teeth with the pain. It
was probably for that reason that I forgot the gold bag.
She leaned forward and held out her hand. "I may not have another
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: The autumn forests treacherously slew
What Sparta held most dear and was the crown
Of far Eurotas, and passed on, nor knew
How God had staked an evil net for him
In the small bay at Salamis, - and yet, the page grows dim,
Its cadenced Greek delights me not, I feel
With such a goodly time too out of tune
To love it much: for like the Dial's wheel
That from its blinded darkness strikes the noon
Yet never sees the sun, so do my eyes
Restlessly follow that which from my cheated vision flies.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: Europe at all, but have originated there. From marked
similarities in the two plays however, and more especially in the
methods of their production, we may suppose that the Chinese
Punch and Judy was carried to Europe in the following way:
Among the many traders who visited Central Asia while it was
under the government of the family of Genghis Khan, were two
Venetian brothers, Maffeo and Nicolo Polo, whose wondering
disposition and trading interests led them as far as the court of
the Great Khan, where they remained in the most intimate
relations with Kublai for some time, and were finally sent back
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